Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) is a collaborative project aiming to standardize biological measures and data sharing for bioastronautics and spaceflight related -omics data.
Using our established analysis methods from the NASA Twins Study , we are performing comprehensive and integrative multiomics analysis of astronauts, including the crew from the Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn missions. Longitudinal sampling will allow for monitoring the impacts of spaceflight and provide a health service to the crew post-mission. Furthermore, applying the same core protocols in the sample collection, processing, and analysis across multiple missions will allow us to validate and compare our findings with other investigators and space agencies/companies around the world.
Inspiration4 was the first human spaceflight to orbit Earth with only private citizens on board. The Crew Dragon capsule Resilience launched on 16 September 2021 and landed on 18 September 2021.
For the mission we have collected and analyzed a comprehensive set of longitudinal multiomics data from the astronauts that span pre-, in-, and post-flight periods. These results and datasets are made available as a resource for all related biomedical and spaceflight research.
Professor of Computational Genomics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Eliah G. Overbey
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine
Braden Tierney
Postdoctoral Researcher, Weill Cornell Medicine
JangKeun Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher, Weill Cornell Medicine
Afshin Beheshti
Bioinformatician and Principal Investigator, NASA Ames Research Center
Francine Garrett-Bakelman
Assistant Professor and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
Masafumi Muratani
Professor of Genome Biology, University of Tsukuba
Daniela Bezdan
Chief Scientific Officer, Yuri Gravity
Ari Melnick
Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Ariel Ekblaw
Director and Founder, the Aurelia Institute, MIT Media Labs
Susan Bailey
Professor ofRadiation Cancer Biology and Oncology, University of Colorado
Iwijn De Vlamnick
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Sylvian Costes
Branch Chief, NASA Ames Research Center
Stefania Giacomello
Researcher, SciLife Lab
Stephen B. Baylin
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research Professor of Oncology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Douglas C. Wallace
Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine (CMEM) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Wu
Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and the Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Stanford University
David Furman
Associate Professor, Buck Institute
Tak Mak
Professor of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Michael Snyder
Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University; Stanford W. Ascherman, Professor in Genetics
Joseph Borg
Professor of Applied Biomedical Science, University of Malta
Bader Shirah
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre - Jeddah Branch | KFSHRC · Department of Neurosciences
Stephen B. Walsh
Professor of Nephrology and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist in the London Tubular Centre Department of Renal Medicine, University College London
Keith Siew
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in the London Tubular Centre Department of Renal Medicine, University College London
