Day: February 5, 2024

Performance Period : May 2015 to April 2021 Faculty Investigator : Prof. Maria T. Zuber (PI, MIT); Prof. Gary Ruvkun (Co-PI, MGH), Prof. Christopher E. Carr (Science PI, MIT/Georgia Tech) Project Status : Completed Collaborators: Robert Doebler (Clarmont Biosolutions LLC), Michael Finney (self) and numerous other contributors, students, and staff. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes […]

Project Sponsor : NASA Start Date : Launch in late 2024 Faculty Investigator : Dr. Masatoshi “Toshi” Hirabayashi Project Status : Ongoing The NASA/VIPER is a rover mission to be deployed at Mons Mouton, near the lunar south pole for directly investigating water ice and other volatiles hosted on the surface and subsurface of the […]

Faculty Investigator : Dr. Christopher E. Carr Project Status : Completed Working with colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital and elsewhere, mainly from 2005-2020, we have identified conserved regulators of aging, fat accumulation, metabolism, stress resistance, and reproductive longevity. Our work has identified approaches to improve healthspan and lifespan in aging populations as well as a deeper understanding of the evolutionary […]