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Morehead State receives $300K grant to create space-based research center

Grant from Lexington-based company

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MOREHEAD, Ky. (Jan. 31, 2017) — Morehead State University today received a $300,000 grant from Exomedicine Institute, a Kentucky based nonprofit that fosters medical research and development in the microgravity environment of space, for the creation of the Exomedicine Center for Applied Technology.

The center will bring together scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs and students to design, develop and execute experiments which will then have the opportunity to be carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

“The Exomedicine Center for Applied Technology will allow our students and professors to be a part of cutting-edge experimentation that has the potential to change lives and the future of life science research as we know it,” said MSU president Dr. Wayne Andrews.

Lexington-based Exomedicine Institute maintains infrastructure aboard the ISS to conduct such experiments. Findings from these experiments will be used to improve medical treatments for patients on Earth.