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THE HARVARD-MIT PROGRAM IN BIOASTRONAUTICS

THE HARVARD-MIT PROGRAM IN BIOASTRONAUTICS. 18 th IAA Humans in Space Symposium Houston, Texas April 11-15, 2011 Laurence R. Young, Julie Greenberg, and Alan Natapoff. The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

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THE HARVARD-MIT PROGRAM IN BIOASTRONAUTICS

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  1. THE HARVARD-MIT PROGRAM IN BIOASTRONAUTICS 18th IAA Humans in Space Symposium Houston, Texas April 11-15, 2011 Laurence R. Young, Julie Greenberg, and Alan Natapoff

  2. The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology • 1971 Harvard and MIT create what is now the Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Offers MD degrees. • 1978 HST creates the Medical Engineering/ Medical Physics (MEMP) PhD Program. • 2006 MEMP creates the Bioastronautics PhD Program.

  3. Curriculum: MEMP, Overview • Combines engineering and physical sciences with biological sciences • Pre-clinical medicine (with MD students). • 12-week Introduction to Clinical Medicine • Clinical or industrial preceptorship. • Thesis research

  4. MEMP CORE • Human Pathology • Human Anatomy • Molecular Biology and Genetics • Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, and two of.. Renal-, Respiratory-,Musculoskeletal-Pathophysiology, Introduction to Neuroscience and • Introduction to Clinical Medicine (12 weeks), at a Harvard-affiliated hospital.

  5. Required subjects for Bioastronautics • Aerospace Biomedical and Life Support Engineering • Human Factors Engineering • Space Systems Engineering • Space Life Sciences Journal Seminar (includes link to UTMB Aerospace Medicine Grand Rounds)

  6. Curriculum: Electives Special to Bioastronautics Students elect at least one of the following: • Sensory Neural Systems: Spatial Orientation from End Organs to Behavior and Adaptation • Radiation Biophysics • Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System • Strategic Decision-Making in the Biomedical Business • Information Technology in the Health-Care System of the Future

  7. Bioastronautics: Hands-on Training • Summer Institute with internship • Introduction to Clinical Medicine • Clinical preceptorship at NASA or industrial laboratory

  8. Summer: Johnson Space Center • Space Life Sciences orientation (NSBRI) • 2-3 month space related internship at JSC • Mentors: Dr. Jean Sibonga, Dr. Jeffrey Jones, Dr. William H. Paloski, Dr. Francis Cucinotta, Dr. David Wu, Dr. Lori Ploutz-Snyder, Nicholas Skytland.

  9. MEMP Recruitment & Admissions • Typically, 300 applicants, 6% are admitted, of which 80% accept. • Bioastronautics, typically: 15 applicants, 1 is admitted and accepts.

  10. Dissemination • Materials developed for the Program’s courses have been supplied to NSBRI and are available for use by colleagues at our counterpart Bioastronautics program (also supported by the NSBRI) at TAMU. • After further refinement, the materials may be made available more widely using MIT’s OpenCourseWare

  11. Generation: PhD Alumni/ae Kathleen Sienko (University of Michigan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering) • Erika Brown Wagner (X-Prize Foundation) • Erez Lieberman-Aiden (Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows)

  12. Generation: Doctoral Candidates • Dan Buckland (Ultrasound imaging of cervical spine in extreme environments.) • Sarah Lumpkins (Risks of highly ionizing radiation on long-duration space flight.) • Rachel Ellman (Countermeasures to bone and muscle atrophy in partial gravity.) • Jordan Spatz (Effects of microgravity on signaling pathways of osteocytes.)

  13. Generation: Newest Students • Alexander Bruno (Bone/ Muscle physiology) • Dustin Kendrick (Exercise physiology) • Nikhil Vadhavkar (admitted 2011)

  14. Profile: Sources/Research • UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS • MIT (2), Harvard, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins, Kentucky, Oklahoma, SUNY-Stony Brook, Vanderbilt. • RESEARCH CONCENTRATIONS • Bone-Muscle (4), Exercise Physiology, Genetics, Instrumentation in Flight (2), Radiation, Vestibular Physiology

  15. Profile: Bioastronautics Faculty • Professors Laurence R. Young, Charles M. Oman, Jeffrey Hoffman, Dava Newman, Mary Cummings, and David Mindell (MIT), and John Tylko (MIT) • Professors Daniel Merfeld and Conrad Wall III (Harvard, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary)

  16. Bioastronautics Community • Take courses together, attend conferences, collaborate on papers, share expertise, acquire the NASA culture at first-hand. • Tatsuya Arai [Japan](CV modeling); Justin Kaderka, Torin Clark, Alexander Stimpson (lunar landing); Roedolph Opperman [South Africa] and Allison Anderson (astronaut glove/suit); Jaime Mateus [Spain] (Artificial Gravity); Aaron Johnson (planetary EVA mission planning),

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