{"id":785536,"date":"2024-07-10T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785536"},"modified":"2024-07-10T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:00:04","slug":"nasa-administrator-leaders-to-discuss-space-based-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785536","title":{"rendered":"NASA Administrator, Leaders to Discuss Space-Based Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As part of the Biden Cancer Moonshot, NASA will virtually host an event at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 11, to highlight how the agency is working to end cancer for the benefit of humanity by conducting research aboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The event will stream on NASA Television, the\u00a0NASA app, and the\u00a0agency\u2019s\u00a0website. Learn how to\u00a0stream NASA TV\u00a0through a variety of platforms, including social media.<\/p>\n<p>Additional participants include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Michael Roberts, chief scientific officer, International Space Station National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Catriona Jamieson, director, Sanford Stem Cell Institute at the University of California San Diego<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a member of the Cancer Cabinet, NASA is working with agencies and researchers across the federal government to reduce the nation\u2019s cancer death rate by at least 50% in the next 25 years, one of the ambitious but achievable goals of the Cancer Moonshot.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Biden Cancer Moonshot at:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">-end-<\/p>\n<p>Faith McKie<br \/>Headquarters, Washington<br \/>202-358-1600<br \/>faith.d.mckie@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-administrator-leaders-to-discuss-space-based-cancer-research\/?rand=772197\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Biden Cancer Moonshot, NASA will virtually host an event at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 11, to highlight how the agency is working to end cancer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}