{"id":216689,"date":"2025-06-27T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/kentucky-invests-300000-in-space-research-to-find-cures-for-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-multiple-sclerosis"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:02:44","slug":"kentucky-invests-300000-in-space-research-to-find-cures-for-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-multiple-sclerosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/kentucky-invests-300000-in-space-research-to-find-cures-for-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-multiple-sclerosis","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky invests $300,000 in space research to find cures for Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s and multiple sclerosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kentucky-invests-300000-in-space-research-to-find-cures-for-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-multiple-sclerosis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Stem Cell Foundation, which is based in Louisville, has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from NASA to continue research on brain cell behavior in space as a way to find treatments and cures for neurogenerative conditions, and Kentucky is investing $300,000 toward the project as part of a 10% match.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky\u2019s portion was allocated in the 2024 legislative session in Senate Bill 1. The announcement was made Wednesday, March 26 at the Kentucky State Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to the space research Kentucky students have done at the Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics and NASA\u2019s presence at Morehead State University, Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, said it was easy for him and his colleagues to support this type of research in hopes of making Kentucky a hub for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Stem Cell Foundation, which is based in Louisville, has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from NASA to continue research on brain cell behavior in space as a way to find treatments and cures for neurogenerative conditions, and Kentucky is investing $300,000 toward the project as part of a 10% match. Kentucky\u2019s portion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}