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Millie Hughes-Fulford (Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.)
is (accurate at June 2002) a NASA payload
specialist.

==Background==
Hughes-Fulford was born December 21, 1945, in
Mineral Wells, Texas.  She graduated from Mineral
Wells High, in 1962, then received her Bachelor of
Science degree in Chemistry and Biology from
Tarleton State University in 1968, and her Ph.D.
from Texas Woman's University in 1972.  

She is a member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, American Society for
Gravitational Science and Biology, American
Society for Bone and Mineral Research, American
Society for Cell Biology and the Association of
Space Explorers.

==Awards and Honors==
* 1995-present Organizing Committee for the
International Conference on Eicosanoids and other
active Bio-lipids
* 1995-2001 Advisory Board for Marine Biological
Library Sciences Writing Program, Woods Hole, Mass
* 1994 Marin County Woman of the Year
* NASA Space Flight Medal
* 1987-1990 she was a member of the Committee on
Space Biology and Space Medicine, National
Research Council
* 1986-1989 Board of Regents Embry-Riddle
University, Daytona Beach, Florida
* l984 Presidential Award for Federal Employee for
Western Region
* 1972 American Association of University Women's
Fellowship
* 1968-1971 National Science Foundation Fellow
(Graduate)
* 1965 National Science Foundation Summer Research
Fellow (Undergraduate).

==Academic Experience==
Dr. Hughes-Fulford entered college at the age of
16 and earned her B.Sc. degree in chemistry and
biology from Tarleton State University in 1968. In
1968, Dr. Hughes-Fulford began her graduate work
studying plasma chemistry at Texas Woman's
University as a National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellow from 1968-1971. She was an
American Association of University Women fellow
from 1971-1972. Upon completing her doctorate
degree at TWU in 1972, Dr. Hughes-Fulford joined
the faculty of Southwestern Medical School,
University of Texas, Dallas as a postdoctoral
fellow with Marvin D. Siperstein where her
research focused on regulation of cholesterol
metabolism. Dr. Hughes-Fulford has contributed
over 90 papers and abstracts on bone and cancer
growth regulation. Since then, she was named the
Federal Employee of the Year for the Western
Region in 1985, International Zontian in 1992 and
Marin County Woman of the Year in 1994. She was a
major in the US Army Reserve Medical Corps until
1995.

Selected as a payload specialist by NASA in
January 1983, Dr. Hughes-Fulford flew in June 1991
aboard STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS 1), the
first Spacelab mission dedicated to biomedical
studies. The SLS-1 mission flew over 3.2 million
miles in 146 orbits and its crew completed over 18
experiments during a 9-day period bringing back
more medical data than any previous NASA flight.
Mission duration was 218 hours, 14 minutes and 20
seconds.

Dr. Hughes-Fulford is a Professor at the
University of California Medical Center at San
Francisco where she continues her research. As the
Director of the Laboratory for Cell growth|Cell
Growth and
Cellular_differentiation|Differentiation and
Scientific Advisor to the UnderSecretary of
Veteran's Affairs, she studies the control of
human prostate cancer growth with VA grants and
the regulation of bone and lymphocyte activation
with NASA grants.

She was the Principal Investigator (PI) on a
series of SpaceHab/Biorack experiments, which
examined the regulation of osteoblast (bone cell)
growth. These experiments flew on STS-76, in March
of 1996, STS-81 in January 1997 and STS-84 in May
1997. These studies examined the root causes of
osteoporosis that occurs in astronauts during
spaceflight. She found changes in anabolic signal
transduction in microgravity. Currently, in
collaboration with Dr. Augusto Cogoli she is
examining changes in T-cell gene induction in
spaceflight in a joint NASA/ESA experiment on
STS-107. This study (Leukin) examines the decrease
in T-cell activation, a medical problem that was
first found in returning Apollo_program|Apollo
astronauts. Isolated T-cells will be activated in
spaceflight on Biopack hardware; the altered
activation will be examined by
Reverse_transcriptase|reverse-transcriptase-polyme
rase chain reaction (RTPCR) analysis of induced
genes. Further studies of gene regulation and
signal transduction in spaceflight were approved
in January 2002 for Shuttle/ISS experiments
examining Kinase|protein kinase C (PKC) signal
activation.

==External links==
*
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/hughes-fulford.htm
l Source
* http://www.spacedu.com/ Laboratory of Cell
Growth

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