Biomedical Research 



Formal linkages should be established between the biomedical research pro- 

 grams at NASA and other agencies, particularly the National Institutes of 

 Health. 



An interagency Space Medicine Coordinating Committee should be devel- 

 oped that would include biomedical scientists from NASA, the United States 

 Air Force Space Command, and other organizations with mutual interests in 

 space research. 



NASA should consider the establishment of NASA professorships for junior 

 and senior university faculty appointees, and these professorships should be 

 supported by the Agency. Such professorships might be referred to as 

 "NASA Professor of Physiology" (or "Microgravity Physiology") in XYZ 

 University. Similarly, NASA should consider the development of awards for 

 faculty training or established investigators similar to the faculty 

 development programs of the National Institutes of Health or the American 

 Heart Association. 



Reference List 



1. National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council. Space Science 

 Board. 1970. Life Sciences in Space. Ed. H. Bentley Glass. Washington, DC: 

 National Academy of Sciences. 



2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Life Sciences Division. Space 

 Medicine and Biological Research Branches. September 1984. Life Sciences: A 

 Strategy for the 80's. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space 

 Administration. 



3. Pitts, John A. 1985. The Human Factor: Biomedicine in the Manned Space 

 Program to 1980. NASA SP-4213. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and 

 Space Administration. 



4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the IUPS Commission on Gravitational 

 Physiology. The Physiologist 27(1984), 28(1985), and 30(1987). 



5. Physiologic Adaptation of Man in Space: VII International Man in Space 

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6. The Spacelab Experience: Life Sciences. Science 225(July 13, 1984): 205-234. 



7. National Academy of Sciences. Committee on Space Biology and Medicine. 

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 1990s. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. 





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