This is a $2,773,956 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Loma Linda University (LLU), a private, non-profit educational institution in California. The grant is for the "Definition Phase Only" of research to study the effects of space radiation on the central nervous system. LLU will expose adult mice to various charged particle mixtures found in space, including protons, helium, oxygen, and silicon, at different dose rates over long time...
This is a $312,990.61 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Loma Linda University (LLU), a private non-profit academic medical institution located in Loma Linda, California. The grant is for research on the "Effects of Low-Dose Radiation on Neurovascular Remodeling and Blood-Retina Barrier Function in Mice, Rats and Rabbits." The award does not have a set-aside designation and runs through September 30, 2025. LLU has a...
This is a federal research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Loma Linda University (LLU), a private non-profit educational institution located in Loma Linda, California. The grant, with a ceiling value of $2,250,151.00, is focused on studying the impact of the spaceflight environment on the host immune response, particularly the effects on B cells and antibody production. The study will utilize a mouse model to establish a link between exposure to the...
This federal contract award to Loma Linda University (LLU), a private non-profit educational institution, is for a grant valued at $399,818 to support research on the cellular mechanisms of spaceflight-induced effects. The award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2024. The contract is not set aside for any particular business type, indicating LLU's competitive standing in this specialized area of biomedical...
This federal award is a grant for $994,678 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), doing business as the Office of Research Administration. The grant supports research on the effects of real microgravity on human neural stem cells and oligodendrocytes, aimed at understanding the causes of increased intracranial pressure and visual impairment observed in astronauts after long-duration space missions. The research will...
This is a $1,328,066.91 grant awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Loma Linda University, a private non-profit educational institution, to conduct an experiment protocol involving mice on the International Space Station (ISS). The experiment will study the effects of the antioxidant compound Mn(III) tetrakis (N-ethylpyridinium-2-yl) porphyrin (MnTE-2-Py) on oxidative stress, retinal endothelial cells, and extracellular matrix in microgravity. The mice will be housed on the ISS for up to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $299,141.27 grant to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, doing business as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The grant supports research on how simulated microgravity affects mammary gland development and stem cell function, with a focus on understanding underlying genetic factors and potential cancer risks. This fundamental research aims to address key questions about the physiological...
This is a $785,218.56 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for a research project titled "PROBING THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF RADIATION, ALTERED GRAVITY AND STRESS ON BEHAVIORAL COGNITIVE AND SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTIONS TO PREDICT PERFORMANCE DECREMENT IN ASTRONAUTS". The research aims to study how the combined factors of radiation, altered gravity, and stress impact the behavioral,...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K0252, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport (LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport), a public academic medical institution. The $230,683.12 grant is for research titled "Investigating Lunar Stress and Parkinson's Disease Using an Alpha Synuclein Yeast Model", which aims to study the effects of partial gravity and...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as Health Sciences Division, was awarded a $149,834.28 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct biomedical research on the bioactive proteins secreted by the human vasculature in response to low-dose space radiation. The original research aims remain unchanged, with the exception of re-numbering and modifying the irradiation plan to include gamma and mixed field exposures instead of...
This is a $215,685.52 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Loma Linda University (LLU), a private non-profit university. The grant is for research to evaluate the effects of simulated microgravity and low-dose radiation, which are stressors unique to the spaceflight environment, on the central nervous system, eyes, and skin in a ground-based model. The research aims to further understand the mechanisms behind the deleterious physiological effects that can impact astronaut health both acutely during missions and chronically, leading to long-term decrements in quality of life. There is no set-aside designation for this grant, which was awarded on September 5, 2017 with a completion date of March 3, 2020. LLU has previously supported NASA and Department of Defense research through federal contract awards.