Russian–French Scientific Collaboration in Space Biology and Medicine

A. I. Grigor’ev and A. R. Kotovskaya*Translated by B. Alekseev

Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence to: e-mail: grigoriev@pran.ru; kotovskaia@imbp.ru

*Academician Anatolii Ivanovich Grigor’ev is an RAS vice president and director for science of the RAS Institute of Medical and Biological Problems. Adilya Ravgatovna Kotovskaya, Dr. Sci. (Med.), is a professor and head of the Physiology of Acceleration and Artificial Gravity Laboratory at the same institute.

Received 21 January, 2016

Abstract—Space exploration is an advanced task affecting the interests of humankind in general; consequently, this activity calls for wide international cooperation. However, such examples are rather few thus far. All the more interesting is the experience of Russian–French interaction in biomedical space research. The article published below discusses the history of the joint studies and their results with their unquestionable scientific and applied significance.

Keywords: Soviet Union/Russia, France, space biology and medicine, RAS IMBP, CNES, cardiovascular system in weightlessness, hemodynamics, posture and movement regulation during weightlessness, radiation–physics and radiation–biology research.

DOI: 10.1134/S101933161604002X