OCHMO Latest News and Top Stories

Cancer Research Heads to Space with Wake Forest, ISS and NASA

Read more on Wake Forest's project with NASA to send up organelles to ISS for cancer research.

Aerospace Medical Education Core Competencies

Review the Extended Executive Summary written by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

3D Printing at University College London (UCL) School of Pharmacy

OCHMO's Dr. J.D. Polk and Dr. Neal Zapp met with a host of partners in the United Kingdom and had the chance to visit the UCL School of Pharmacy's 3D printing lab led by UCL's Professor Abdul Basit and a team of researchers from FabRx, a UCL spin-out co-founded by three members of the UCL research team.

Ethically Cleared to Launch?

See what OCHMO's Dr. Marisa Covington and others have to say about rules needed for human research in commercial spaceflight.

Successful 3D Printing of Human Meniscus on ISS

Researchers recently took tissue engineering to new heights when they leveraged the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to successfully 3D print a human meniscus (a piece of cartilage in the knee joint).

Enabling Human Spaceflight Missions by Supporting Astronaut Health, Safety and Performance

Read more on NASA's Space Flight Human-System Standards written by OCHMO's Standards Team, published in npj Microgravity.