WHO:	David L. Tomko, Ph.D. , Lead Scientist for Biomedical Research and Countermeasures Program Bioastronautics Research Division NASA Headquarters
TOPIC:	NASA Studies of Physiologic Adaptation During and After Space Flight
ABSTRACT:	NASA's Biomedical Program has sponsored numerous physiology and behavior experiments on animal and human subjects in ground-based laboratories and during space flight. The objective of such experiments is to characterize and understand how various human biological systems adapt to space and how they re-adapt on return to Earth. This talk will include a description of the major physiological and behavioral changes that occur in humans during and after flight and a description of the range of biomedical studies that NASA sponsors both on the ground and in flight. There will be a discussion of the biomedical challenges that researchers must overcome to enable humans to safely explore beyond low Earth orbit and of opportunities for investigator participation in NASA's Biomedical Program...
WHEN:	12/18/2003 4:00:00 PM
WHERE:	Med Center K307 (3-6408)

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