Building the Space Omics Topical Team to boost European space researchers’ role in the international consortia redefining spaceflight-generated datasets
Raúl Herranz,
Willian da Silveira,
Daniela Bezdan,
Stefania Giacomello,
Nathaniel Szewczyk
Affiliations
Raúl Herranz
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CSIC), 28040 Madrid, Spain; Corresponding author
Willian da Silveira
Department of Biological Sciences, School of Health, Science and Wellbeing, Staffordshire University, ST4 2DF Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Daniela Bezdan
Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Stefania Giacomello
Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 17165 Stockholm, Sweden
Nathaniel Szewczyk
School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, NG7 2UH Nottingham, UK; Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH 43147, USA
In a broadening and more competitive space exploration landscape, playing at scale is necessary to obtain results. European researchers share their lessons learned on growing a research program where omics techniques can feed new knowledge, both fundamental and practical, for space exploration. Sending people to new space destinations will require interdisciplinary research centered around omics and personalized medicine, with added constraints of low-gravity and high-radiation environments.
