NCATS is the home for collaborations on biomedical research and public health with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The agencies work together to coordinate funding and collaboration opportunities, workshops and conferences, special interest groups and other activities across agencies. For more information, contact Lucie Low, Ph.D., NIH-NASA liaison point of contact.
Meetings and Other Events
2020
- BIO Convention (June 8–11)
2019
- ISS R&D Conference (August 3–6)
- Ask an Astronaut: Biomedical Science Edition (September 23)
- International Astronautical Congress (October 21–25)
- Space Summit 2019 (October 14–15)
- American Society for Gravitational and Space Research Annual Meeting (November 19–23)
2018
- Organs- and Tissues-on-Chips (D1) (April 8–12)
NIH-NASA Projects
- Tissue Chips in Space (launched on SpX 16, 17, 20 and 21)
- NCI NeXT program (launched on SpX 17)
- NCI RAS program (launched on SpX16)
News
2020
- Tissue Chip Trio to Orbit Earth for Answers to Osteoarthritis and Muscle Diseases (NCATS, December 2)
- Media Advisory: To Improve Health on Earth, NIH-Funded Tissue Chips Push New Boundaries in Space (NCATS, NIBIB, NIH) (March 2)
2019
- NCATS-Supported Scientists Model Aging-Related Conditions in Space to Improve Human Health on Earth (NCATS) (April 24)
2018
- NIH-Funded Tissue Chips Rocket to International Space Station (NCATS) (December 4)
- A Giant Leap Forward for Tissue Chip Research in Space (NASA) (November 8)
2017
- CASIS, NCATS, and the NIBIB Announce International Space Station Funding Opportunity Focused on Human Physiology (CASIS) (December 4)
- CASIS and NCATS Announce Five Projects Selected from International Space Station Funding Opportunity Focused on Human Physiology Research (ISS/CASIS) (June 22)
- Astronaut Describes Experiences Aboard ISS, Sequencing DNA in Space (PDF - 1,848KB) (NIH) (June 2)
2016
- SpaceChat Checks in on Science in the ‘Final Frontier’ (PDF - 2,146KB) (NIH) (November 4)
- NCATS, CASIS Announce Funding Opportunity to Conduct Tissue Chip Research in Space (NCATS) (October 5)
- NIBIB-Funded Space Experiment on Bone Health Successfully Launched Into Orbit (NIBIB) (July 19)
- The ISS National Lab and NCATS Collaborate to Promote Human Physiology Research on the International Space Station (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) (July 12)
2015
- Health Research Off the Earth, for the Earth (NASA) (April 17)
- Scientists Make No Bones about First Study of Osteocyte Cultures on Space Station (NASA) (April 10)
- Research with Space Explorers May One Day Heal Earth’s Warriors (NASA) (February 17)
- T-cell Activation in Aging — Studying Immune Function in Microgravity (NIA video) (January 26)