Burn Lab In Space
Dr. Jeffrey Shupp and his colleagues have been awarded space and resources to complete a study of wound healing on the International Space Station (ISS). The Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory (FBSRL) uses an optimized splinted mouse wound model and offered to adapt it to (ISS) conditions to investigate the effect of microgravity on wound healing in collaboration with the US Army Center for Environmental Health Research (USACEHR). The proposal the groups co-a