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: 2026-10-06
Time: 15:00
Room: Hall 7

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	Adaptation of the AMA Guides methodology for multi-level quantitative health assessment of retired cosmonauts: results and prospects	10	confirmed	Ms. Ekaterina Faber	Federal Scientific Clinical Centre of the Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia	Russian Federation
2	15:10	Urinary Oxalate Excretion in Astronauts during Long-Duration Spaceflight: An Exploratory Analysis	10	confirmed	Dr. David Sobel		United States
3	15:20	From the ISS to Deep Space: A Printable Crosslinker Ink for Extrusion-Based 3D-Bioprinting in Microgravity	10	confirmed	Mr. Johannes Windisch	TU Dresden	Germany
4	15:30	Postural and locomotor instability after short- and long-term support withdrawal: testing phase-specific countermeasures for progressive sensorimotor alterations	10	confirmed	Dr. Alina Saveko	Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)	Russian Federation
5	15:40	INSTANT EFFECTS OF ELECTROMYOSTIMULATION ON THE VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF MUSCLES UNDER CONDITIONS OF SUPPORT UNLOADING	10	confirmed	Mr. Ivan Ponomarev	Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)	Russian Federation
6	15:50	ATLAS: An Electromagnetic System Enabling Abdominal Suturing in Microgravity	10	confirmed	Mr. Baptiste Sigal	ISAE-Supaero University of Toulouse	France
7	16:00	Chronophysiology in Space. Regulation of Circadian Rhythms and the Potential of Chronotherapy for Cosmonaut Health	10	confirmed	Dr. Galina Vassilieva	Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)	Russian Federation
8	16:10	Toward Ocular Resilience to Radiofrequency in Long‑Duration Spaceflight: ARPE‑19 Responses to 2.1 GHz W‑CDMA Microwave Exposure and Modulation by Calcitriol	10	confirmed	Dr. Engin Demir	University of Health Sciences, Türkiye	Türkiye
9	16:20	Thrombolytic Pharmacodynamics in Microgravity: Implications for Autonomous Medical Care in Deep Space	10	confirmed	Mr. Adrian Tabari	University of British Columbia	Canada
10	16:30	Monitoring Fluid changes in the Neck Using Electrical Impedance to Assess Spaceflight Internal Jugular Vein Thrombosis Risk: A Posture Study	10	confirmed	Ms. Sadafossadat Tabatabaei	Dartmouth College	United States
11	16:40	Space-Related Dermatoses as a Model for Inclusive Astronaut Selection	10	confirmed	Mr. Oscar Miles		United Kingdom
12	16:50	Multi-Omic Profiling of Extreme Phenotypes to Better Understand and Enhance Astronaut Health and Performance	10	confirmed	Mr. Anurag Sakharkar	Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO)	Canada
13	17:00	A Simulation-Based SaMD Architecture for Crew Health Monitoring and Autonomous Triage During Space Missions	10	confirmed	Ms. Melisa Çelik	Istanbul Kültür University	Türkiye
14	17:10	The Astronaut’s Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS)	10	confirmed	Dr. Eirini Maliagkani	National and Kapodistrian University Of Athens	Greece

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