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Projects: LIFE Experiment: Phobos

Team and Partners

• Bruce Betts, Experiment Manager, The Planetary Society
• Louis Friedman, The Planetary Society

• David Warmflash, Principal Investigator, U.S.
• George Fox, University of Houston, U.S.
• Neva Ciftcioglu, Nanobac Pharmaceutical Inc., NASA-JSC, U.S.
• K. Ingemar Jönsson, Kristianstad University, Sweden
• Joseph Kirschvinck, University of Kyoto, Japan, Caltech, U.S.
• David McKay, NASA -JSC, U.S.
• Cody Nash, Caltech, U.S.
• Elena Vorobyova, Moscow State University, Russia
• Alexander Zakharov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

• Marian McKee (Team Lead)
• Tim Lilburn
• Amy Smith
• Sung-Oui Suh
• Jim Zhou

• Petra Rettberg (Team Lead)
• Elke Rabbow
• Ralf Möller
• Marko Waßmann
• Thomas Berger
• Gerda Horneck
• Günther Reitz

• Bud Fraze, Stellar Explorations Inc.
• Tomas Svitek, Stellar Explorations Inc.