Creating an International Gateway for R&D in Microgravity: Capitalizing on Florida’s unique position to spur research and access Commercial Space

Biomedical & Biotechnology Benefits from Space • Nearly 50 years of R&D translated to diagnostics and care • Focus on surviving and living in space • Many space related issues mimic terrestrial chronic disease • Osteoporosis, muscle-wasting disease, neuro-vestibular alterations, etc • And the environment of space (microgravity) presents as an ideal model for investigations • 3D tissue structures, altered gene expression, enhanced cellular responses to altered environment • Many other opportunities to be discovered • Translation to health and healthcare is just emergin