Professor David William Kim of our university's College of Liberal Arts has signed an agreement with Professor Ghada Alsaleh's team, Director of the Space Innovation Laboratory at the University of Oxford, UK, for future research on astronaut anti-aging and space food (P.T.N.M.) within the field of astrobiology aboard the International Space Station (International Space Station: ISS).

This collaboration builds on the academic partnership between Professor David Kim's Korea Institute of Astronautics (KIFA), which researches security and resilience for Deep Space Missions (Mars) through crisis management policies and well-being in space environments of microgravity, radiation, and social isolation, and the University of Oxford's Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Sciences, specializing in space medicine, cellular growth, and physical movements. The research findings are also expected to contribute to uncovering crucial clues for extending the lifespan of Earth's multiracial humanity (Caucasian, African, and East Asian populations), as recently discussed between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

To this end, KIFA has assembled a team of domestic and international professors and researchers (Website: https://kifaspace.org/): 

Ravi Gupta (Associate Director), Emmanuel L.M. Wolfs (Associate Director), Do-Youn Lee (Associate Director), Tara B. M. Smith (Project Manager, Australia), Henderika de Vries (Affiliated Researcher, Luxembourg), Anderson Wilder (NASA Analog Astronaut Candidate, USA), Barrett S. Caldwell (International Collaborator, USA), and Emily Seolah Min (Research Assistant, Kookmin University).