Dr. C. Gunnar Blomqvist was a UT Southwestern cardiologist and Professor of Internal Medicine, internationally-known for his research in space medicine. His Space Medicine Lab, for which he was principal investigator, designed one of 18 experiments performed on the 1991 flight of Space Lab Life Sciences 1, the first NASA flight dedicated to human medical research. UT Southwestern's Dr. Drew Gaffney was a payload specialist on the flight. In 1993, NASA awarded a grant of approximately $5 million to UT Southwestern for space medicine research with Dr. Blomqvist as the principal investigator. Note: Dr. Blomqvist's last name is sometimes spelled 'Blomquist'.
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