CARU auxiliary laboratory space is now open

The cognitive behavioral and sleep recording suite is now fully functional—as are the centrifuges, wet lab and surgical spaces—at our auxiliary lab site known as the “Chronic Acceleration Unit” or “CARU.”

Since the early 1960s this site to the west of the main campus in Davis has housed NASA-funded research into the physiological impacts of gravitational forces. Led until recently by Charles Fuller, it is now headed by his son, Patrick. NASA-funded research will continue to be performed here, as well as the full compliment of techniques in the lab that are also found at the main lab space at CNS and soon in Aggie Square.