NINDS Neuroscience Funding Announcements

Biomedical Research on the International Space Station (BioMed-ISS) (UH2/UH3)

Funding Contact(s): Merrill Mitler, Ph.D.
Funding Categories: Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience

Brief Description:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are cooperating to facilitate biomedical research in space for better understanding of human physiology and human health on Earth. The NIH uses this FOA to publicize the availability of the International Space Station (ISS) as a National Laboratory, and to announce the NIH BioMed-ISS program encouraging investigator-initiated applications for biomedical research that will use the unique microgravity and radiation environment and resources of the ISS to test innovative hypotheses for the potential benefit of human health on Earth. Applications to this FOA should propose innovative biomedical research on the molecular or cellular level that is directly relevant to the NIH mission and can be carried out on the ISS.

NIH Guide: PAR-09-120
Release Date: 2009-03-09
Expiration Date: 2011-10-01