A University of Lethbridge researcher is part of a team further exploring how the human body responds to space travel.

Dr. Gerlinde Metz, a neuroscientist at the University of Lethbridge’s Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, along with other researchers including Tony Montina from the university’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, have been awarded a $225,000 Canadian Space Agency grant to continue work into furthering our understanding of space travel. The grant, which funds work for three years, was among 14 recently announced for Canadian post-secondary institutions by federal industry minister Mélanie Joly.

“This is NASA’s largest ever human research efforts,” she said Tuesday.

NASA has compiled at least a dozen years of astronaut data, from astronauts who went to

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