This federal contract award, NNX16AK78G, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Baylor College of Medicine, a private health sciences university in Houston, Texas. The $196,579.57 grant is for the development of a "DOSE TRACKER APPLICATION FOR MONITORING CREW MEDICATION USAGE, SYMPTOMS, AND ADVERSE EFFECTS DURING MISSIONS." The goal is to better understand how medications used during spaceflight may interact differently with the body compared to on...
This contract is a $263,057.92 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Baylor College of Medicine, a private, non-profit university and research institution located in Houston, Texas. The grant aims to evaluate the impact of space biomedical research on operational space medicine as it relates to NASA's policy and oversight responsibilities. Baylor will assign a physician-scientist to work at NASA Headquarters within the Human Exploration and Operations...
This contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Baylor College of Medicine, is for a Pilot Study of Artificial Gravity. The $47,501.00 grant is for research and does not have a set-aside designation, indicating that Baylor College of Medicine competed for this award on an unrestricted basis. As a leading academic medical center, Baylor College of Medicine has an extensive portfolio of federal contracts and grants, particularly with the National Institutes of...
This is a $1,052,878 firm-fixed-price delivery order awarded by the Johnson Space Center, a civilian agency, to the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a non-profit research organization. The contract is to conduct a study assessing current and emerging precision medicine research, technologies, and applications to improve human health and performance during space exploration missions. This award is under a larger $15 million multiple-award Federal Supply Schedule contract the Potomac...
This federal contract award, valued at $593,110.00, was granted to Baylor College of Medicine, a private health sciences university in Houston, Texas, to support research on the "Role of MATH1 in Development and Function of Proprioreceptors." The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the form of a grant for research, with a period of performance from July 15, 1999, to July 14, 2003. Baylor College...
This $2,926,098 federal grant award to Baylor College of Medicine, a private non-profit health sciences university in Houston, Texas, is for a long-term study to determine the health consequences of the Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS) and related brain alterations from long-duration spaceflight. The key objectives of the study are to 1) assess the long-term health impacts of SANS and associated ocular changes, and 2) evaluate the long-term health implications of...
This federal contract award, valued at $99,999.99, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, a leading academic medical center and research institution. The contract aims to study the adverse cardiopulmonary effects of exposure to extraterrestrial dusts and their implications for space travel. The research will build upon preliminary investigations that have revealed differences in pulmonary inflammation caused by...
This is a $60,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Stantec GS Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit subsidiary of the global architecture and engineering firm Stantec. The contract is for the preparation and submission of a manuscript assessing the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals for long-duration space missions. The contract is not set-aside. The contract requires Stantec to develop an assessment...
This federal contract award to Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black land-grant university in Texas, supports a research study on the combined effects of microgravity and space radiation on human cells. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is providing $722,711.44 in grant funding for this project, which aims to establish a baseline for understanding the molecular and cellular responses to simultaneous exposure to these space environmental stressors. The...
Baylor College of Medicine, a prestigious private non-profit health sciences institution based in Houston, Texas, was awarded a $963,000 research grant by a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center on July 10, 2024, to support the Space Healthcare and Training Program. The award, which carries an ultimate completion date of July 9, 2027, was made without a set-aside designation, reflecting the institution's competitive capabilities in delivering specialized research and medical services....
This federal contract award to Baylor College of Medicine, valued at $296,912.15, is for research to investigate how the spaceflight environment affects the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of common medications used by astronauts. The objective is to determine if factors unique to spaceflight, such as microgravity and radiation exposure, alter how these medications are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted, as well as their therapeutic effects. The study will examine three medications commonly used during spaceflight missions: a sleep aid, a stimulant, and an anti-nausea drug. This research is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is part of a broader effort to optimize medication use for astronauts, particularly during long-duration exploration missions where medical evacuation may not be feasible. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Baylor's competitiveness in securing federal research funding.