The second round of Fellowship Programme on the Large Diameter Centrifuge Hypergravity Experiment Series (HyperGES), saw access awarded to teams from Universidad Católica Boliviana ‘San Pablo’ in Bolivia and Macau University of Science and Technology of Macau, a special administrative region of China.

Both projects are related to life sciences, a field that benefits greatly from the opportunity to freely augment gravity levels. The project of Universidad Católica Boliviana ‘San Pablo’, proposed by an all-female team, will examine the effect of hypergravity in the break-up of human red blood cells under strain to gain an improved understanding of anaemia in space. The team will also highlight the efforts of Bolivian women in the space field.