INDEX

A. CONFERENCES

B. SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS AND RESEARCH LABS

C. RESEARCH PROPOSALS

D. DATABASES AND OTHER RESOURCES

CONFERENCES

1. First International Conference on The Science of Whole Person Healing

2.  Quantum Mind 2003:   Consciousness, Quantum Physics and the Brain

3.  2003 International Conference on Science and Consciousness 

4  International Conference on Biophotons and Biophotonics

5. The 8th symposium of the International Association for Biologically Closed Electric Circuits in
 Biomedicine

6. Third European Energy Psychology & Energy Therapies Conference

7. CASYS '03: Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

1.  First International Conference on The Science of Whole Person Healing
March 28-30, 2003  in  Washington, DC

An interdisciplinary conference organized by leading scientists, engineers, physicians, and CAM practitioners
for:

· scientists, engineers, physicians, CAM practitioners
· the interested public
· NIH, NSF, DoD, DoE, HHS program managers
· Foundation, Federal agency, and Congressional staffers

Program Content 

· Authoritative, up-to-date presentations by the world's leaders on the enormous scientific database
 accumulated from data in each field - from fMRI on acupuncture, to psychic surgery in Brazil, to the role of
 intention on inanimate and living systems

· Reports by current NIH, DoD, and private foundation (NFAM, Chopra Foundation, Samueli Institute,
Templeton Foundation) grantees for research in various CAM practices

· Data from worldwide research on outcomes from low-cost, low-tech healing practices


Among the Major Speakers

Jeanne Achterberg  Alternative Therapies   Iris Bell  U. Arizona  
John Bockris  Texas A&M  
Juliana Brooks  Berkshire Labs
Larry Dossey  Alternative Therapies  
Hans-Peter Duerr  Max Planck Inst 
Henry Heimlich  Heimlich Institute  
Jack Houck  Boeing Corp  
Wayne Jonas  Samueli Inst  
Joie P. Jones   U. California Irvine   Konstantin Korotkov   St. Petersburg U. 
Candace Pert   Georgetown U.  
Rustum Roy  Penn State U.  
Marilyn Schlitz  Inst of Noetic Sciences   
David Simon  Chopra Foundation
Gary Schwartz   U. of Arizona
George Sudarshan  U. Texas
William Tiller   Stanford U.

For more information and registration, go to
http://www.wholepersonhealing.com
Email: info@wholepersonhealing.com

Michio Kaku, Ph.D., theoretical physicist, advisor to NASA, author: "Hyperspace: a scientific odyssey 
through parallel universes, time warps and the 10th dimension"; "Beyond Einstein"; "Introduction to 
superstrings"; "Quantum field theory"; "Quarks, symmetries and strings" 
Peter Russell,  DCS Computer Science, author, "The brain book"; "Waking up in time"; "The global brain
awakens"; "The consciousness revolution" and others
John Hagelin, PhD Physics, Director, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy
William Tiller, PhD, professor emeritus, Department of Materials Science, Stanford University; author, 
"Science and human transformation: subtle energies, intentionality and consciousness"; "Conscious acts of 
creation: the emergence of a new physics"
Ralph Abraham, PhD, editor, International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, author, "Chaos in 
discrete dynamical sytems", "The evolutionary mind", "Dynamics - the geometry of behavior", "The chaos 
avant-garde" and others
Story Musgrave, MD (NASA Astronaut: "Spaceflight - A Cognitive Psychology of Gravitational Orientation")
Larry Dossey, MD, author, "The Re-Invention of Medicine and Space"; "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"
John DeLuca, PhD, professor and former director, Neuropsychology Lab, Wayne State University School 
of Medicine 
Craig Webb, cofounder and director, Dreams Foundation, dream and lucid dream researcher, Stanford 
University
Amit Goswami, PhD Physics, author "Quantum Mechanics, the self-aware universe: how consciousness 
creates the material world"
Stanislav Grof, MD  founding president of the International Transpersonal Association, author, "The 
holotropic mind", "The cosmic game: explorations of the frontiers of human consciousness" and others

We invite you to expand your personal awareness and participate in the exploration of consciousness from 
multiple perspectives.

For more information, contact The Message Company at 505-474-0998, marek@bizspirit.com, or 
www.bizspirit.com.

Organized by the Commission for Photobiophysics, the Biophysical Society of China and the International 
Institute of Biophysics

The Scope of the Conference

The Conference will provide a forum for exchanging and discussing the all-important advances in the fields 
of Biophoton and the photonics in biomedical science and engineering. The photons from biological system 
could be spontaneous chemiluminescence, bioluminescence, fluorescence, and transmitted or scattered light 
within or through biological systems. Emphasis will be put on various advances imaging technology, as well as 
their scientific bases and biomedical applications. The imaging technology for observing molecular events in 
single live cells and the noninvasive imaging and monitoring systems with high optical sensitivity and spatial 
resolution will be the hot topics to be discussed. The conference would also provide a good atmosphere 
for interaction among physicists, chemists, optical engineers, biologists and medical doctors.

The Program will embrace nine special topics:

1. The physical, chemical and biological properties of biophotons.
2. Diagnostic application of biophotons in Medical, Agricultural and environmental sciences.
3. Physics on photon diffusion, scattering and reflection in biological system.
4. Innovative methods for fluorescence labeling of macromolecules.
5. Clinical application of new optical approaches for Noninvasive diagnosis, localization and treatment of tumors.
6. Optical tomography, such as OCT and Endoscopy.
7. Functional molecular imaging at cellular and subcellular level, especially the application of GFP and other 
fluorescence proteins.
8. New optical technology for visualization, measurement, analysis, and manipulation in biomedical science.
9. Other optical imaging technology

Organizing Committee

Chairman: Xun Shen (China)
Co-Chairman: Fritz-Albert Popp (Germany)
Secretary-General: Yaning Liu (China)
Members:
Hanben Niu (China) Liangbi Li (China) Jiin-Ju Chang (China) Jianhua Yang (China) Xiaolin Ynag (China) 
Hui Ma (China) Da Xing( China) Qingming Luo (China) L. Beloussov (Russia) R. Van Wijk (Netherlands) 
I. Makino (Japan) H. Hiruma (Japan)

Registration

Registration will entitle participants to attend the Scientific Meetings, Welcome Reception, Conference 
Banquet, and to receive Conference materials.

Call for Papers/Posters

The participants wishing to attend the Conference and present Oral talk or poster are requested to fill the 
appropriate bow in the attached Reply Form and send to Conference secretariat by January 30, 2003. The 
deadline for abstract submission will be indicated in the Second Announcement. In order to be preferentially 
selected as oral presentation, you are kindly requested to submit your abstract to the Conference Secretariat 
before March 15.

For reply and questions:
Reply Form
E-mail: sb@sun5.ibp.ac.cn
Conference Secretariat, Mrs. Shunyi Wei
The Biophysical Society of China
15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China

5. Call for papers--8th international IABC meeting in Greece
From:  "Scott Hill 
Date:  Thu Jan 16, 2003  4:37 pm



From the IABC headquarters in Florida we have received this announcement of the upcoming 8th annual 
meeting in Greece. I have previously posted in this forum the program for the 7th int'l conference in Helsingør, 
Denmark, plus several supplementary reports on the EChT cancer therapy, Dr. Nordenstrøms work, and other 
EM experimental therapy techniques. Please search the archives of "bioelectromagnetics" (under yahoogroups) 
if you have not seen these articles.

Please send your abstracts and articles directly to the IABC, and not  to us! However, we will be willing to 
help European, Asian and African/South American authors who are weak in technical English to
help restructure their papers in English, and I hope that this time, we will be able to make the proceedings 
available in electronic form.

Scott Hill
bioelectromagnetics group
Frontier Sciences European Network
info@frontiersciences.zzn.com
http://zap.to/frontiersciences

THE 8TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE IABC

Sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICALLY CLOSED 
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS IN BIOMEDICINE 
in cooperation with the Laboratory of Medical Physics of the Medical School, and Department of 
Nuclear Technology of the Polytechnic School, Democritus University of Thrace; Alexandroupolis and 
Xanthi Campuses


When: September 19 - 22, 2003
Where: Thraki Palace Hotel Alexandroupolis, Greece

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Symposium President: Professor Photios Anninos
Vice President Professor Nikolaos Tsagas
Vice President Dr. Adam Adamoupolis
Dr. Athanasia Kotini
Corresponding Secretary: Ms. Ionela Tranca



Dear IABC Associates and Friends,

The forthcoming IABC Symposium promises to be of vital interest to an ever widening group of attendees. 
We anticipate a variety of alternative medical presentations from many parts of the globe, but
our primary focus will be on electrical and/or electromagnetically based medical innovations helpful particularly 
to oncologists, ophthalmologists, and neurologists.

CANCER and EchT (Direct Current)

Oncologists attending their first IABC symposium can benefit from the fifteen years of experience our 300 
Chinese associates have had with the application of electrochemical therapy (EchT) to many types of
cancer as well as hemangioma. Today literally thousands of cancer patients have been treated with EchT, 
and the success rates achieved have been far higher than any reported in western medicine. Led by
Professor Xin Yu-Ling, EchT is now being taught to physicians in South Korea and other countries on the 
Pacific Rim. EchT is also being used successfully at Klinik St. Georg, Bad Aibling, Germany and
in several other European clinics. Professor Bjorn E. W. Nordenstrøm  discovered EchT and introduced 
this technique to China in 1987 where it has now become fully accepted by the Chinese Medical Association.

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (Micro currents)

The leading cause of blindness in persons over the age of 65 is now being effectively treated by means of 
micro currents of electricity. Several leading American researchers now preparing to introduce this
therapy into the medical mainstream will be offering presentations. In 1997 U.S. Golfing legend, the late 
Sam Snead, was treated with MCS (micro current stimulation) and over a period of four days his vision
in the better eye improved from 20/100 to 20/30. This improvement is atypically high, but in the great majority 
of ARMD cases there is either some improvement or a halt in the progressive degeneration.
MCS has also been proven efficacious in the treatment of retinitus pigmentosa.

We look forward to learning of the recent progress made applying MCS not only to vision problems, but 
also to neuromuscular and other medical problems.


NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS (Weak Magnetic Fields)

Professors Photios Anninos, Nikolaos Tsagas, and their associates have been making medical history with the 
application of weak magnetic fields to an array of medical disorders. For more than a decade Parkinson’s 
Disease and epilepsy have been very successfully treated with extremely weak magnetic fields. Other 
neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, Alzheimer’s Disease, and multiple sclerosis have also responded, 
but not as remarkably as has PD or epilepsy.
 
More recently weak magnetic fields have been successfully applied in the treatment of schizophrenia, autism, 
and infertility. The limits of efficacy for this treatment have not yet been determined.

Our symposium president, Professor Anninos, will be pleased to share information on the numerous medical 
achievements made by the department of medical physics.
 
Attendees will visit the department laboratory housed in the new University Hospital, the largest hospital in 
the Balkans.


The Symposium Challenge


Physicians, but especially neurologists who wish to attend the symposium are invited to bring with them one 
or two Parkinson’s patients from their country of origin. The PD patients must be ambulatory, and otherwise 
in good health. The patients will be evaluated and treated during the course of the symposium.

A maximum of ten patients will be accepted for evaluation and treatment. For more information, please contact 
Carl F. Firley, medical coordinator for "The Symposium Challenge."

Attendees can inspect the superconducting quantum interference device (or SQUID) and see for themselves 
how the SQUID is used to evaluate the patient and thereafter, how weak magnetic fields
are applied in treating the patients.

If ten patients are involved, we predict that from 5 to 8 of the patients will clearly show improvement over 
the duration of the symposium.


First Call for Papers

Complete information regarding the symposium will be sent to you shortly. This announcement is being 
made in order to inform you of the symposium dates, and in the hope that you will reserve time for
the symposium on your calendar.

In Appreciation

The pioneering BCEC research of IABC founder Professor Bjørn E. W. Nordenstrøm ties these diverse 
therapies together. It is with our profound gratitude to him and his associates at the Karolinska
Institut in Stockholm, Sweden, that we recognize the monumental contribution to medical science made 
possible by Professor Nordenstrøm’s work.



Carl F. Firley

IABC Vice President and Secretary General
4976 SW Bimini Circle S.
Palm City, Florida 34990 U.S.A.

Phone: 772 283 2180 Fax: 772 283 9943
email: iabc@adelphia.net

6. Third European Energy Psychology & Energy Therapies Conference

The Third European Energy Psychology & Energy Therapies conference will take place from 
August 8 - 10 2003, in Brighton, the UKs premier city by the sea.

Proposals are being invited now - if you would like to join us for this extraordinary weekend 
of friendship, learning, the exchange of ideas at the cutting edge of the field, and to experience 
the depth of healing that is the unique feature of the revolutionary new Energy Psychology & 
Energy Therapies approaches, please send your proposal immediately.

Click HERE for full instructions on how to submit.

7. CASYS '03: Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

Liège, Belgium, August 11-16, 2003 

HEC· LIEGE, Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Business School, 14 Rue Louvrex, B-4000 Liège  

ORGANIZER: CHAOS, Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems,

asbl CHAOS, Institut de Mathématique, B37, Université de Liège, 

Grande Traverse 12, B-4000 LIEGE 1, Belgium. 

Tel. : + 32 (0)4 366 00 28 Fax: + 32 (0)4 366 94 89 E-mail: Daniel.Dubois@ulg.ac.be

CHAOS is a Member of IFSR, The International Federation for Systems Research

President: Daniel M. Dubois (Belgium)

Vice-President: Robert Vallée (France) 

SPONSORS:

Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), 
Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Hôtel de Ville de Liège, 
Echevinat de la Culture, des Musées et du Tourisme de la Ville de Liège, HEC· 
Liège, Euro View Services SA. 

SPONSORSHIPS:

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC), 
Systems Science European Union - Union Européenne de Systémique (UES), 
Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS)  

SCOPE of CASYS'03

The scope of CASYS'03 will be oriented to theoretical developments and applications in the 
modelling and computing of anticipatory systems in any fields of natural and artificial systems.

A computing anticipatory system is a system which computes its current states in taking into 
account its past and present states but also its potential future states.

Strong anticipation refers to an anticipation of events built by or embedded in a system.

Weak anticipation refers to an anticipation of events predicted or forecasted from a model of a system.

A class of computing anticipatory systems deals with the differential difference equation with 
retardation and anticipation dx(t)/dt = F(x(t), x(t - tr), x(t + ta)), where t is the current time, tr a 
delayed time and ta an advanced time, is a strong anticipatory system.

Another class of computing anticipatory systems deals with discrete incursive and hyperincursive 
equations. An incursive equation is an inclusive or implicit recursive equation such as, for example, 
x(t+1) := F(x(t), x*(t+1)), where each iterate x(t+1) is computed at each time step t = 1,2,3,... from a 
function F of x(t) and x*(t+1), where x*(t+1) is the anticipation of x(t) at the next time step t + 1, 
computed from the system itself or from a model. A hyperincursive equation is an incursive equation 
which generates multiple iterates at each computing step.

References:

Dubois Daniel M. (2000) Review of Incursive, Hyperincursive and Anticipatory Systems - Foundation of Anticipation in Electromagnetism. Computing Anticipatory Systems: CASYS'99 - Third International 
Conference. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, Published by The American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference 
Proceedings 517, pp. 3-30.

Copyright (2000) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in (Dubois Daniel M. (2000) Review of Incursive, Hyperincursive and 
Anticipatory Systems - Foundation of Anticipation in Electromagnetism. Computing Anticipatory 
Systems: CASYS'99 - Third International Conference. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, Published by 
The American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 517, pp. 3-30.) and may be found at (http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/517.jsp).

 Daniel M. Dubois, Theory of Incursive Synchronization and Application to the Anticipation of a Chaotic Epidemic. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, volume 10, pp. 3-18, 2001. 
ISSN 1373-5411, ISBN 2-9600262-3-3. Published by asbl CHAOS, Belgium.

Copyright (2001) CHAOS asbl. This paper may be downloaded for personal use only. 
Any other use requires prior permission of the author and CHAOS asbl.

CALL FOR PAPER CASYS'03 

Potential authors are invited to submit a paper, related to the topics detailed below, 
for presentation at CASYS'03.

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR THE FULL DRAFT PAPER: APRIL 30, 2003. 
Notification of acceptance of the paper to be published in the proceedings: 1 month after receiving 
the draft paper.

Final paper will be due on October 2003, after the conference.

Tentative Topics :

Anticipatory systems, Strong and Weak anticipation, Incursive and Hyperincursive Systems, 
Systems with retardation and anticipation, Differential difference equation systems, Anticipatory synchronization, Self-referential Systems, Cybernetics, feedback, feedforward, General systems, 
Predicting and Forecasting systems, Holistic Systems and Reductionism, Epistemology,

Mathematical systems, Differential systems, Discrete systems, Differential functional equations, 
Delayed, Advanced, Neutral, Mixed equations, Dynamical systems, Chaos Theory, Fractal maps, 
Category Theory, Catastrophe Theory,

Modelling of systems, Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation of systems,

Physical systems, Fluid mechanics, Wave equations, Advanced-retarded waves, Electromagnetism, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, Quantum Mechanics, E.P.R. Non-locality, Aharanov-Bohm potential, 
Computing Quantum systems, Relativity, Berry's phase, Faster than light, Tachyons, Gravitation,

Computing systems, Automata, Networks (web), Recursive Systems, Software and Hardware, User 
modeling, agent-based systems, evolutionary and adaptive computation, Algorithms for simulation, 
implicit algorithms, predictor-corrector algorithms, Crisp and Soft Computing, Logical systems, Fuzzy 
logic, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Computational intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, 
Artificial Language, Music, Image, Artificial Life,

Cognitive systems, Neuronal brain, Neuro-psychanalysis, Psychology, Intention, Free will, Mind and Consciousness,

Biological systems, Ecosystems, development, evolution, adaptation, emergence,

Economical and Social systems, Management, Decision-making, Planning, Discrete event dynamic 
systems, Information Systems, Operation research, Statistics, Probability theory, mono- and 
multi-criteria analysis,

Engineering systems, Control Theory, Predictive and adaptive control, Robotics, Multi-agents, 
manufactoring systems, Aesthetics and Architecture.

PRE-REGISTRATION AT CASYS'03 : CLICK HERE

All participants and authors of papers are asked to register to the conference CASYS'03 in filling 
this form:

REGISTRATION FORM ON LINE: CLICK HERE 

LOCATION OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference will be held at

HEC - LIEGE Business School,

rue Louvrex, 14, B-4000 Liège, Belgium - http://www.hec.be/

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS AND RESEARCH LABS

1.NIH Human Frontier Science Program

http://www.hfsp.org/

2. National Science Foundation: "Crosscutting Interdisciplinary Programs" and 
"Physics Frontiers Centers"
www.nsf.org
www.nsf.gov/mps/divisions/phy/about/c_facilities.htm

3.  Foundation for the Future: "Future of Humanity Research Programs"
www.futurefoundation.org
www.futurefoundation.org/grants/grant_categories.html

4. California Institute for Human Science
www.cihs.edu/whatsnew/research.asp

5. James S. McDonnell Foundation: "21st Century Science Initiative"
www.jsmf.org
www.jsmf.org/pages/programs/21stCenturyScience.htm

6. Fetzer Institute
www.fetzer.org

7. Burroughs Wellcome Fund: "Interfaces in Science"
www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/index.html

8. Research Corporation: Special Opportunities in Science Awards
www.rescorp.org
www.rescorp.org/sos.htm

9. The Arlington Institute
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/about_tai/

10. Samueli Institute
http://www.siib.org/

11. John Templeton Foundation
www.templeton.org

12. Samueli Institute
http://www.siib.org/

13. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
www.sloan.org

14. The Mind Science Foundation
http://www.mindscience.org/

15. Institute of Noetic Sciences
URL:  http://www.noetic.org

16. International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS) 
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/islis/

17. International Institute of Biophysics
URL: http://www.datadiwan.de/iib/ib_000e_.htm

18. Laboratories for Fundamental Research
http://www.lfr.org

19. Consciousness Research Laboratory
URL: http://www.psiresearch.org

20. Boundary Institute
www.boundaryinstitute.org

21. Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab
URL:  http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/

22. The Global Consciousness Project 
http://noosphere.princeton.edu

23. Rhine Research Center
www.rhine.org

24. University of Utrecht Parapsychology Laboratory
http://www.psy.uva.nl/resedu/pn/res/ANOMALOUSCOGNITION/anomal.shtml

25. The RetroPsychoKinesis Project
URL:  http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/proposal.html

26.  NIH: DEVELOPMENTAL /PILOT PROJECTS IN CANCER COMPLEMENTARY 
AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM)

This Program Announcement expires on October 22, 2003, unless reissued.

Release Date:  December 17, 2001

PA NUMBER:  PAR-02-040
 
National Cancer Institute
 (http://cancer.gov/)
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
 (http://nccam.nih.gov/)

PURPOSE

The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), 
and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) invite research grant 
applications from interested investigators to conduct innovative developmental pilot research 
investigating Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in cancer. The intent of this initiative is to 
encourage and support the development of basic and clinical CAM cancer research and to provide the 
basis for more extended research projects by establishing the methodological feasibility and 
strengthening the scientific rationale for these projects. This announcement is also intended to stimulate 
and facilitate the entry of promising investigators into cancer CAM research through a program of 
exploratory investigator-initiated R21 grants.

The exploratory/developmental (R21) grant mechanism is used for pilot projects or feasibility studies to 
support the exploration of feasibility, as well as the development, of projects investigating CAM in cancer 
and for the generation of preliminary data.  The R21 mechanism is specifically intended to support innovative 
ideas where preliminary data are sparse or do not exist.  The R21 supported projects are intended to serve as 
a foundation for planning and developing future research projects (R01s).  The objective of this Program 
Announcement (PA) is to encourage applications from individuals who are interested in testing novel or 
conceptually creative ideas that may produce innovative advances in the understanding and use of 
CAM in cancer.
 
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

[...]

There is a paucity of R01 funded research grants in the field of cancer CAM. Therefore, to increase the 
number and quality of investigator-initiated R01 research grants on cancer CAM, the NCI's Office of 
Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine and NCCAM developed this PA for Developmental/Pilot 
Projects in Cancer CAM.  Applications will undergo competitive review organized by the NCCAM 
in collaboration with the NCI.

The intent of this initiative is to encourage and support the development of basic, and clinical (prevention, 
therapeutic and palliative) CAM cancer research.  Another goal of this initiative is to facilitate communication 
and collaboration between the CAM practitioner and the conventional cancer research communities.  

For the purpose of this PA, applicants must include modalities from the following broad program areas in CAM:

Alternative Medical Systems (e.g., oriental medicine, Ayurvedic, homeopathy, naturopathy);

Manipulative and Body-based Systems (e.g., chiropractic, osteopathic, massage therapy or unconventional 
applications of integrated conventional and physical therapies);

Energy Therapies. These approaches focus either on energy fields purported to originate within or be 
conducted through the body (e.g., external qi gong, therapeutic touch, Reiki, intentional effects on 
living systems); or those from other sources [e.g., therapeutic application of electromagnetic (EM) 
fields including pulsed EM fields, magnetic fields, Direct Current (DC) fields].

Pharmacological or Biologically based Therapies (e.g., metabolic therapies and immunoaugmentative 
therapies as used by CAM practitioners or the public such as Coley's toxin, Enzyme therapies, 
the Livingston-Wheeler system, the Revici system, or 714-X )

Herbal Medicine (Note: This category includes studies of whole plant products or extracts and does 
not include the study or isolation of active ingredients from herbal preparations except where 
identification and standardization of optimal whole product are the specific aim -- e.g. optimal ratio of 
glycosides and terpenoids in Ginkgo biloba -- or comparisons are being made to the whole product);

Orthomolecular Medicine - This category includes the use of nutritional and food supplements, 
Co-enzyme Q10, carnitine, melatonin, vitamins) for therapeutic or preventive purposes. These products 
are usually used in combinations and at very high doses (5-10 fold) well above the Recommended 
Daily Allowance (RDA) when such RDAs have been defined.

Mind-Body Medicine: Concept proposals in this category will be considered only if they are limited to 
those mind-body approaches that are used by the public or practitioners outside of a conventional 
medicine setting (e.g., transcendental meditation, imagery, hypnosis, biofeedback, music therapy, 
yoga, relaxation, spirituality, biological effects of consciousness).  Mind-body approaches that are relatively 
integrated into conventional medicine (e.g., patient education, psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, 
etc.) will NOT be considered unless physiologic endpoints (e.g., immune parameters) or disease 
parameters (response rate to conventional therapy, disease-free survival, overall survival) are the primary 
outcome measures;

Applications may also focus on interactions between these modalities and non-CAM cancer treatment and 
therapies (e.g. Drug Interactions: studies to evaluate the potential interaction of antioxidant compounds 
and conventional chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.)


ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
 
Applications may be submitted by foreign and domestic, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, 
public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of State and local 
governments, and eligible agencies of the Federal government.  Racial/ethnic minority individuals, 
women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply as principal investigators. 

Direct inquiries regarding programmatic issues to:
 
Wendy B. Smith, Ph.D. Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Cancer Institute Executive Plaza North 6130 Executive Blvd Suite #102, MSC 7302
Bethesda, MD  20892-7302  Telephone:  (301) 435-7980 FAX:  (301) 480-0075
Email:  smithwe@mail.nih.gov

Mary Ann Richardson, DrPH  National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 102   Bethesda, MD  20892-5475
Telephone:  (301) 402-1272 FAX:  (301) 480-3621
Email:  marich@mail.nih.gov

 

 RESEARCH PROPOSALS

DATABASES AND OTHER RESOURCES

1.  Research Center for Bioelectromagnetic Interaction Database
(Forschungszentrum für Elektro-Magnetische Umweltverträglichkeit)
 http://wbldb.femu.rwth-aachen.de/db_status.php3?l=e
Contact:    webmaster@femu.rwth-aachen.de 

Also see:

http://www.bioelectromagnetics.org   Scientific   BEMS   Bioelectromagnetics Society   
http://www.ebea.org   Scientific   EBEA   European Bioelectromagnetics Association  
http://www.femu.rwth-aachen.de/   Scientific   Research Center for Bioelectromagnetic Interaction      
http://www.infoventures.com/emf   Publication   Infoventures   EMF-Link Home Page   
http://www.microwavenews.com   Publication   MWN   Microwave News   
http://www.sprbm.org   Scientific   SPRBM   Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine   
http://www.who.ch/peh-emf   Government   WHO   International EMF Project