OHIO professors advance international astronaut and space biology research Published: January 20, 2021 Author: Staff reports Ohio University faculty are part of a team of researchers who have published a special compilation of papers that is being described as the largest set of astronaut and space biology data ever produced. Nathaniel Szewczyk, Ph.D., professor of molecular medicine at the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Sarah Wyatt, Ph.D., professor of environmental and plant biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, coauthored six of 29 papers recently published by NASA in a special compilation of Cell Press journal articles called “The biology of spaceflight.” The OHIO researchers are among more than 200 investigators from dozens of academic, government, aerospace and industry groups to contribute to the articles.