In 2011, Portland State University opened the Center for Life in Extreme Environments—a new institute, among the first of its kind. It does exactly what its name declares. It studies life in places where there reasonably should not be any: deserts, hot springs, hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. Antarctica.
In 2012, Joey Gallo was drafted in the first round by the Texas Rangers. So far as I can tell, Portland State’s Center for Life in Extreme Environments has never studied him—humanity does not appear to be a particular focus of the center, and baseball even less so—but he seems like a logical potential subject for its researchers.