Space Biosciences Division Advanced by Vectorspace AI Hire
Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D. has been added to the Vectorspace AI to advance its new space biosciences division, which studies stressors and works on countermeasures that can be used to protect and repair human DNA while in space.
Spaceflight causes many changes in human health. Humans cannot be sent into space without understanding how to protect and repair human DNA along with tissue regeneration while in space. Vectorspace AI specializes in detecting hidden relationships in data via advanced networks of data engineering pipelines designed to generate datasets and visualizations applied to space biosciences and is a long time collaborator with the Bissell Lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) along with the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) division.
Dr. Bissel joins the Biological Systems and Engineering Division Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). She is one of five recipients of the 2020 Canada Gairdner International Award, an annual honor given to scientists who have contributed to transformative human health research. She is Faculty of four Graduate Groups in UC Berkeley: Comparative Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Molecular Toxicology, and Bioengineering (UCSF/UCB joint program).
Vectorspace AI's space biosciences division applies 'tip of the spear' unsupervised learning methods in AI/ML connected to NLP/NLU (Natural Language Processing/Understanding) biological language modeling to generate datasets used to create relationship networks between genes, proteins, diseases, micronutrients and drug compounds. Data engineering pipelines are one of the most important pillars underpinning accelerated scientific discovery. Dr. Bissell will be advising on partnerships in space biosciences with companies and space agencies such as Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA Space Biosciences, ESA, JAXA and others with a focus on research related to 'dynamic reciprocity', the ECM (Extra cellularmatrix), TME (Tumor Microenvironment), exosomes, simulated microgravity, biomarkers, ocular, brain ECM, nutrigenomics, GCR (Galactic Cosmic Rays), HZE (High-energy and high-charge ions), Bragg peak and 'track' correlation analysis related to DNA repair pathways along with high/low LET (Linear Energy Transfer) radiation, telomere elongation/shortening, chromosomal translocations and dysregulated gene expression and additional multiomics research in connection to space biosciences.
Specific applications in space biosciences will benefit all humankind indefinitely while also leading to new discoveries and applications in precision and personalized medicine which can be applied today along with drug repurposing, repositioning, and discovery connected to healthspan and revenue.
(Source: Vectorspace AI news release)