session 3

Title: Medical Care for Humans in Space
type: oral
Description: This session focuses on medical care for astronauts including operational medicine aspects, countermeasure development and applications, as well as needs for future care for astronauts during long term, stays in space and missions to and on the Moon and Mars. A further focus will lie on medical care for passengers and operators of commercial suborbital and orbital space flights.
Date: 2025-09-30
Time: 15:00
Room: Room C4.11

IPC members

Co-Chair: Prof. Satoshi Iwase, Aichi Medical University, Japan;
Co-Chair: Prof. Oleg Orlov, Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russian Federation;
Rapporteur: Prof. Hasan Birol Cotuk, Türkiye;
Rapporteur: Dr. Katrin Stang, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Germany;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	ICG in Space: AI-Enhanced Continuous Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring for Microgravity Missions	10		Dr. Tomas Bothe	Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany
2	15:10	Experience and prospects of the bioimpedance analysis application in space medicine	10		Dr. Galina Vassilieva	Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)	Russian Federation
3	15:20	Next-Generation Hemostasis: Synthetic Hemorrhage Control Solutions for Long-Duration Spaceflight	10		Mr. Tugcag DUMLUPINAR	INPE - National Institute for Space Research	Brazil
4	15:30	Drug Prediction for Spaceflight-Induced Immune Dysregulation from the Inspiration4 Mission	10		Mr. Anurag Sakharkar	New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center	Canada
5	15:40	Engineering Cell-Based Radioresistance in Human iPSC-derived Neurons to Reduce Toxicity of Acute and Chronic Doses of Radiation; Towards a Gene Therapy for Astronaut Protection Long-Term Space Missions.	10		Mr. Aaron Rosenstein	University of Toronto	Canada
6	15:50	Interventional Radiology in Space, a New and Promising Cure	10		Dr. Jérôme Soussan	Aix-Marseille University	France
7	16:00	Pupillometry in a gyro simulator during the lunar analog Colony 1 mission.	10		Ms. Julia Baścik	AGH University of Krakow	Poland
8	16:10	Investigation of Spinal Anesthesia Dynamics in Simulated Microgravity	10		Mr. Adrian Tabari	University of British Columbia	Canada
9	16:20	A Comprehensive Space Medicine Program to Meet the Evolving Needs of Human Spaceflight	10		Dr. Kris Lehnhardt	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	United States
10	16:30	Innovative Medical Care Solutions with Orally Dissolvable Nanostrips for Space Missions	10		Dr. Gülseren SAKARYA	Ministry of Industry and Technology of Türkiye	Türkiye
11	16:40	INSITE: A Bioprinting System for Full-Thickness Skin Wound Repair on Earth and in Space	10		Mr. Sushant Singh	University of Toronto	Canada
12	16:50	Proof-of-Concept Autonomous Wearable Ultrasound Platform for Enhanced Medical Imaging in Space Missions	10		Dr. Maria Antico	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	Australia
13	17:00	Spatial Considerations for Emergency Surgical Care (ESC) in Lunar Missions : Design of Training Analogues and Simulation for Lunar Health Maintenance Facility (HMF)	10	confirmed	Mr. Souktik Bhattacherjee	University of Adelaide	Australia
14	17:10	Sustaining human health in spaceflight - Ethical challenges	10		Dr. SIDDHARTH RAJPUT	International Space University (ISU)/University of South Australia	Australia
*		Developing a Simulated Situation Room for Training Medical Autonomy in Deep-Space Missions	10	confirmed	Ms. Susana Alves	Asclepios	Portugal
*		Positive Spin: Spectroscopic Analysis of Ibuprofen Degradation due to Heavy Ionising Radiation Exposure and its Impact on Pharmaceutical Viability in Future Space Exploration and Habitation	10		Mr. Gordon Carroll	Astraea Technologies	Australia
*		Space Life Sciences Research within the Australian Antarctic Program – supporting long duration spaceflight	10		Dr. John Cherry	Australian Antarctic Division	Australia
*		Space to breathe: investigating how to perform a cricothyrotomy in an underwater water simulation study for long-term space travel	10		Mr. Daan Van Den Nieuwenhof	Radboud University Nijmegen	The Netherlands

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