NCCAM MAKES THE FIRST TWO AWARDS TO CREATE CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

[Guest guest]

Dear Colleagues,

I think I've got all the centres given NIH grants to research oriental

medicine.

 

Wainwright

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-- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,

NEW YORK, NY

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: FREDI KRONENBERG, PH.D.

Collaboration to establish a Center for Traditional Chinese

Medicine and Women's Health at Fudan University in China

for conditions such as menstruation, fertility, pregnancy,

and menopause. Total award: $270,523.

 

-- HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL, BOSTON, MA

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: DAVID M. EISENBERG, M.D.

Collaboration with the China Academy of Traditional Chinese

Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Keio

University (Japan) to establish the U.S.-China-Japan

Research Consortium on Herbal Medicine. Total award:

$263,031.

 

-- JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, BALTIMORE, MD

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: PAUL S. LIETMAN, M.D.

Collaboration between The Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

and the National University of Singapore (NUS) and other

units in China to create the JHU-NUS Center for Research on

CAM in Singapore. Total award: $274,480.

 

-- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MD

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: BRIAN M. BERMAN, M.D.

Collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and

the University of Illinois at Chicago Program for

Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences to

create the Center for Functional Bowel Disorders and

Traditional . Total award: $255,940.

 

-- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA, MO

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: WILLIAM R. FOLK, PH.D.

Collaboration with the University of Western Cape, South

Africa, and the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis to

establish the International Center for Indigenous

Phytotherapy Studies. Total award: $275,400.

 

-- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, NC

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: JOHN D. MANN, M.D.

Collaboration with the Kyung Hee University in Korea to

establish the Korean Acupuncture in Central Nervous System

Disorders Center to study the use of Korean acupuncture in

central nervous system disorders. Total award: $254,740.

 

-- UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: MARGARET M. HEITKEMPER, PH.D., R.N.

Collaboration with Ewha Woman's University, Won Kwang

University, and Koryo Hand Therapy Clinic in Seoul, Korea,

to establish the Center for Women's Health Complementary

and Alternative Therapies Research. Total award: $272,472.

 

 

-- NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF ACUPUNCTURE, WATERTOWN, MA

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: PETER M. WAYNE, PH.D.

This Center will evaluate the efficacy and safety of

acupuncture, develop methodologies and study designs

required for acupuncture research, and address the benefits

of acupuncture in the treatment of women's health problems.

This Center will build upon collaborations between

clinicians and scientists at the New England School of

Acupuncture, the Osher Institute at Harvard Medical School,

and two other major Harvard-affiliated institutions, the

Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital

(Boston). The total award is approximately $2.0 million.

 

 

-- MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

BOSTON, MA PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: BRUCE R. ROSEN, M.D.,

PH.D.

Through the use of neuroimaging techniques such as

functional MRI (fMRI) as well as physiological and gene

microarray studies, this Center will study how acupuncture

affects human brain activity. The research projects in this

Center will seek to understand the neurobiology of

acupuncture. The total award is $5.9 million.