Activities

Projects of Relevant National Interest (PRIN) Original Chemiae in Antiviral Strategy-Origin and Modernization of Multi-component Chemistry as a source of Innovative Broad Spectrum Antiviral Stategy;

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Projects funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) also in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) performed in terrestrial environment, on satellites, or on the International Space Station (ISS):

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• Life in Space - origin, presence and persistence of life in space, from molecules to extremophiles

• BIOlogy and Mars Experiment and Biofilm Organisms Surfing Space

• BIO-Signatures and habitable Niches

• MARS-PRE Biological and functional markers for PREcision Astronautical Medicine

• Measurements of neutron production in thick passive shielding and assessment of LET distribution for radiobiological effect

• ABCS (AstroBio CubeSat); Projects funded by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) FOOT-Fragmentation of Target for the development of radiation protection systems

• European Community Projects H2020 AstroChemical Origin (ACO) designed to reveal the past history of the Solar System using Astrochemistry as an investigative tool.

 

Space Missions of The IAI-Astrobiolab Groups

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• OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretations, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer) directed towards the asteroid 1999 RQ36 (Bennu)

• Exo-Mars