The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a U.S. government agency that supports biomedical research in space, primarily through collaborations with NASA. NIH funds research projects that utilize the unique environment of the International Space Station (ISS) to study the effects of microgravity and other space-related factors on human health, with the goal of improving treatments and prevention strategies for diseases on Earth. Key activities include the "Tissue Chips in Space" initiative, which sends miniaturized human organ models to the ISS for disease research and drug testing. NIH partners with the ISS National Laboratory and other organizations to facilitate these studies.
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The research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and Source Research Foundation.
CASIS collaborates with the U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to support physical and life sciences studies.
Since January, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have terminated 2,100 research grants totaling around $9.5 billion and $2.6 billion in contracts.
In 2016 the National Institutes of Health awarded Eric Topol a $207,000,000 grant to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine (All of Us) Initiative.