MEDES - Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology Information

Based in Toulouse (France), MEDES is a group of economic interest created in 1989, which missions are to develop an expertise in the medical supervision of manned flights and the preparations for future interplanetary manned missions and to apply the results of space research on the areas of Healthcare. In order to meet space and clinical research needs, MEDES runs a centre for medical experimentation, the Space Clinic. MEDES has been also invested for more than 15 years in many telemedicine or medical research projects.