Biospecimen Sharing provides the scientific community with access to NASA's inventory of biological materials from organisms that have flown in space or from related ground control studies.  Applicants may submit proposals specifically for analysis of materials obtained from this Program or as an adjunct or supplementary component of an experiment proposal in another research area. Acceptance of materials commits the requestor to provide NASA with results of the study.   These products should include electronic submissions of raw and analyzed data and a final report for archival by the Life Sciences Data Archive project (http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov). Any publications resulting from the study should be appropriately attributed to NASA. The materials remain the property of NASA, can only be used for the approved purpose, and unused portions of the biospecimens must be returned to NASA at the conclusion of the study.

For information on current NASA Research Opportunities/Solicitations visit http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/

For information on available biospecimens visit the LSDA website at http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov

To request biospecimens for research, submit a proposal to NASA suitable for peer review.   For information on how to prepare and submit an unsolicited proposal visit: http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/nais/nasa_ref.cgi