bioastronautics@hopkins
About Us
What is bioastronautics?
Research that encompasses biological, behavioral and medical aspects governing the human body in the space flight environment. At JHU, bioastronautics@hopkins takes a systems approach to looking at all of these aspects. In space, all of the body’s systems are impacted. Studying all of these interactions, a practice known as systems medicine, is a new concept. Interactions between the body systems also involves the interaction between the person and the machinery as well as the person and other crew members over long periods of isolation.
Community
Bioastronautics@hopkins is dedicated to connecting various efforts across JHU divisions focused on studying effects on the human body in spaceflight. To learn more about what other faculty members, centers and labs across JHU are doing in bioastronautics, click the button below.
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The Sky Is No Longer The Limit
Photo by Chris Hartlove. Story by Steve St. Angelo It took a few extra trips around the sun, but Dorothy Coker has found her space in nursing. Among a galaxy of reasons to choose among the five-star programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Dorothy Coker saw one tiny black hole: There was no […]
JHU Professor To Create Center For Space Life Sciences
Photo courtesy of Mark Shelhamer Johns Hopkins Associate Professor Mark Shelhamer, left, is working to create a Center for Space Life Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Shelhamer has spent much of his career studying the human body’s adaptations to space. Now he is trying to help NASA (and commercial entities) safely send humans into space […]