3 day BED REST study
17 September 2017
Healthy volunteers required as "Pillownauts" (Astronauts in Bed) - helping a manned mission to Mars!
To investigate insulin resistance during BED REST. This is part of a larger study with the European Space Agency.
The study in being conducted at the University of Nottingham. It involves medical screening, 3 days bed rest, 3 experimental sessions and 3 days rehabilitation.
Volunteers must be healthy, male and aged 20-45 years.
Contact Dr Natalie Shur, Clinical Research Fellow
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Ethical approval
This study has been approved by the University of Nottingham Medical School Ethics Committee May 2017 reference no: 6-1704
About the researcher
The study will be conducted by a team of doctors and senior researchers at the David Greenfield Human Physiology Unit at the University of Nottingham
