Lauren McIntyre ’15, M ’17 (mathematics) received NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Trailblazer Award for her contributions to the Medical Extensible Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Tool.
MEDPRAT is a computational model that simulates astronaut health during space flight, providing quantitative estimates of medical risk and medical resource utilization given a variety of mission profiles. The Trailblazer Award celebrates the exemplary performance and innovation of early career employees within their first seven years. McIntyre is a computational scientist and technical lead for MEDPRAT.
