The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $139,819.93 grant to Weill Medical College of Cornell University (doing business as Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University) to conduct research on spaceflight-induced gene expression changes. The grant, titled "OUR PROPOSED EXPERIMENTS WILL ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SPACEFLIGHT-INDUCED GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES BY PERFORMING SINGLE-CELL RNA-SEQUENCING AND SPATIAL RNA-SEQUENCING ON MOUSE TISSUES...
This is a $488,896.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Weill Medical College of Cornell University to study the impact of spaceflight and radiation on clonal hematopoiesis. The grant, titled "The Impact of Spaceflight and Radiation on Clonal Hematopoiesis," runs from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2026. Weill Medical College of Cornell University is a prestigious private research university and academic medical center that has a strong track...
This is a $60,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, a prestigious academic medical institution, for a research project titled "SPACEFLIGHT AND REGOLITH INDUCED MITOCHONDRIAL STRESS MITIGATED BY MIRNA-BASED COUNTERMEASURES". The grant is intended to support research focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of spaceflight and lunar regolith exposure on mitochondrial stress, using...
This is a $791,375.68 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Cornell University for research on the evolution of transcriptional pausing in eukaryotic organisms. The research aims to investigate the role of pausing in the regulation of gene expression and its influence on the transition from an inefficient to a fully transcriptionally competent elongation complex. The project will provide insights into the biological factors essential for multicellular...
This is a $300,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, a private academic institution, for research on leveraging microbes from extreme environments to support sustainable plant growth in lunar regolith. The grant is for a research project with a completion date of February 15, 2027. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Weill Medical College of Cornell University is a prominent research...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,575.99 grant to the University of Arizona for a ground-based New Space Biology research project. The project will investigate the epigenetic effects of ionizing radiation and microgravity on gene expression related to DNA damage response and cell cycle control in human mammary epithelial cells. The research aims to better understand how the space environment can alter endocrine regulation of these cellular processes. This...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $299,996.00 grant to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct research aimed at using transcriptomic analyses to determine the gravity-sensitive molecular pathways important for organogenesis. This research aligns with NASA's Space Biology Plan to investigate the effect of the space environment on life and addresses how microgravity impacts tissue morphogenesis and stem cell differentiation....
This $134,913 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Cornell University will fund research to address plant disease, which is one of the greatest threats to the environmental and financial sustainability of crop production worldwide. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. Cornell University is a private research university located in Ithaca, New York that has a history of providing research, engineering, IT, and other technical services...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to North Carolina State University, an 1862 Land Grant College and educational institution located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The grant, valued at $248,071.74, is for a research project titled "From the Perspective of the Target, a Cis-Regulatory Perspective on the Effects of Microgravity." The project aims to utilize the NASA GeneLab data repository to identify mechanisms regulating plant responses to...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Cornell University for $631,485.00 to execute a balanced science program. The award is not set aside for any particular business category. The grant will focus on advancing scientific research and discovery, particularly in the areas of exploration initiatives, on and around the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The work will also support Earth science applications, space weather, planetary defense, and space...
This federal grant award to Weill Medical College of Cornell University, valued at $100,000.00, is for a project titled "An Integrated Framework for Characterization of the Noncoding Genome and Epigenome in Astronauts". The grant is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and aims to expand and integrate bioinformatics tools to examine the regulatory changes to DNA and RNA in human cells, particularly in the context of space travel. The project will utilize data from the NASA Twins Study to generate computational tools and leverage novel single-cell approaches to investigate the impact of space travel on the human genome and epigenome. This work is intended to help identify the genetic and epigenetic risks faced by astronauts. No set-aside designation was mentioned in the information provided.