The Biotechnology Space Research Alliance (BSRA)

By Phil Smith, Posted 01/07/09

Link: http://www.bsraportal.org/

The Biotechnology Space Research Alliance (BSRA), a San Diego-based collaborative, was announced at the AIAA Space 2008 Meeting in September 2008. It is designed to stimulate participation by the public and private sectors in the International Space Station National Lab (ISSNL) and thereby demonstrate its value and cost effectiveness as a research platform for “breakthrough biomedical and biotechnology discoveries”. A key goal of the BSRA is to foster communication linkages between NASA and the San Diego research community which can extend to collaborations between industry and funding and researchers associated with NIH, NSF, DoE and the VA.