Space Concordia - Space Health Division

We are a multidisciplinary group composed of student researchers from various academic backgrounds. Space Health is working on MICRO2, a project conducted in pursuit of better understanding the human immune response through changed induced by reduced gravity, as well as stress on genes induced by hypergravity. For the first phase of the project, (Project 1.0), the team will be performing ground experiments simulating microgravity using a Random Positioning Machine (RPM). For the next phase (Project 1.1), the team will be competing in the 2022 CAN-RGX design challenge organized by the SEDS-Canada. Space Health is in fact one of the four teams selected to fly on the National Research Council's (NRC) Falcon 20 microgravity research aircraft. The team will be participating in a parabolic flight to test their experiment! Lastly, for the last phase of MICRO2 (Project 1.2), the team expects to send their microfluidics experiment to space as part of the payload of SC Rocketry’s space-capable rocket: Starsailor, to be launched in 2022. Additionally, Space Health is also working on other research initiatives: Project 2.0, for which the team is building an ultrasound compatible, soft-robotic heart simulator, and Project 3.0, a project that seeks to improve the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) process in space allowing bystanders who are not trained in medicine to take control of emergency situations and increase the success rate of out-of-hospital CPR.