March 10, 2026

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Cooperation in Space Medicine and Research. The MoU aims to promote joint research aligned with ISRO’s priority areas, with a shared objective of advancing human health, performance and safety during human space missions. MoU was signed and exchanged by Shri Dinesh Kumar Singh, Director, Human Spaceflight Centre and Dr Srinivas M, Director, AIIMS in the presence of Dr V Narayanan, Chairman, ISRO & Secretary, DOS.

Long duration Human Space Missions such as Bharatiya Antariksh Station and Crewed Missions to Moon offers unique medical challenges due to the extreme space environment & microgravity. This co-operation is targeted to conduct ground/space-based studies to develop multidisciplinary space medicine expertise, medical devices, procedure & protocols to maintain human health & performance under extreme space environment as well as advance health care for the nation.

Focused research & developments are planned in the fields of human physiology, behavioural health, immunology & gut Microbiome, biomedical, neuroscience & neurophysiology, nutrition & metabolic health, musculoskeletal atrophy & aging in microgravity, infectious diseases control and countermeasures for improving human health & performance in space environment.

Through this research collaboration, ISRO and AIIMS reaffirm their commitment to advancing space medicine, fostering interdisciplinary research and building long-term institutional cooperation to support India’s human space flight programme initiatives and it will also spur new innovations and creates new opportunities for the scientific community in the country.