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Date, Time & Location: | Wednesday, 04/02/2014 12:10p – 1:00 p.m. Kleberg Auditorium Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
Speaker: | Associate Professor Vice President, Chief Scientist & Institute Associate Director National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) |
Lecture Title: | Personalized Medicine: a 21st Century Countermeasure Against Becoming Lost in Space |
· Describe NSBRI / BCM / NASA driven Astro-Omics projects, as a first step towards employing personalized medicine in space.
· Discuss the pernicious space radiation environment, from the perspective of individual vulnerabilities – including differences between male and female astronauts.
· Anchor the use of personalized medicine, including mitigating the health effects of space radiation, to a future Mars Flyby mission.
Please contact me if you need additional information about this elective.
Nancy Gibbins
Center for Space Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
713-798-7639