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Date, Time:

 

Location:                   

 

Tuesday, 04/05/2016  12:10p – 1:00 p.m.

 

Kleberg Auditorium

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

 

Speaker:                                        

 

Graham B.I. Scott, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and
Center for Space Medicine

Vice President, Chief Scientist & Institute Associate Director

National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI)

 

Lecture.Title:

 

Astro-Omics as a First Step to Deploying Precision Medicine in Space

 

Learning Objectives:

·        Describe NSBRI / BCM / NASA driven Astro-Omics projects, with particular emphasis on the NSBRI/NASA funded Twins Study.

 

·        Discuss the pernicious space radiation environment, from the perspective of individual vulnerabilities – including sex-based differences between male and female astronauts.

 

·        Anchor the use of personalized medicine, including mitigating the health effects of space radiation, to the future exploration of deep space such as a 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