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CORVALLIS - The dean of Oregon State University's College of Health and Human Sciences has been named to a prestigious biomedical council looking at the health risks of space flight.

Tammy M. Bray, a leading national expert on the role of antioxidants in the prevention of disease, has been named to the external advisory council for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, which is funded by NASA.

The organization is a consortium of institutions studying the health risks related to long-duration space flight. The external advisory council is composed of leaders in research fields central to that mission.

In addition to her role as dean at OSU, Bray is a senior scientist at the university's Linus Pauling Institute. She also has an appointment as a clinical professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine.

Bray has a master's degree and Ph.D. in nutrition and biochemistry from Washington State University, and a bachelor's degree in nutrition and food science from Fu-Jen University in Taiwan.

Her research has focused on the role of antioxidants in food in the prevention of free-radical mediated diseases, diet, endocrine-immune interactions, and the role of nutrition in inflammation and wound healing processes.