A group of the space medicine researchers in the Space Medicine Laboratory at UT Southwestern. From left to right, they are Jay Buckey, M.D., C. Gunnar Blomqvist, M.D., Ph.D. (the Principal Investigator), Bill Williams, Ph.D., and Drew Gaffney, M.D.
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Dr. C. Gunnar Blomqvist and other space medicine researchers
In the 1980s and 1990s, Gunnar Blomqvist, M.D., Ph.D., a Professor of Internal Medicine, headed a Space Medicine Laboratory at UT Southwestern. Dr. Andrew Gaffney would later go on to fly aboard Space Lab Life Sciences 1, the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) flight dedicated to human medical research. UT Southwestern's research project on the flight investigated the effects of weightlessness on the circulatory system.
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