CURRENT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Developmental Projects in Complementary Approaches to Cancer Care

Program Announcement:

PA-06-400: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-400.html (expiration date 05/08/2009)

Contact:

Jeffrey D. White, M.D.
301-435-7980, jeffreyw@mail.nih.gov

In an ongoing effort to help promote dialogue and collaboration between CAM practitioners and conventional cancer researchers, as well as promote research focusing on complementary approaches in cancer, this program announcement has been re-issued for a second time.

Originally released in December 2001, this program announcement soliciting grant applications was generated by OCCAM and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to encourage and support the development of basic and clinical complementary cancer research. The support for exploratory/developmental projects through these R21 grants is intended to provide the basis for more extended research projects by establishing methodological feasibility, strengthening the scientific rationale, and allowing the collection of data for these projects. This announcement is also intended to attract the entry of promising investigators into research of these topics.

Examples of applicable complementary approaches include, but are not limited to nutritional approaches, natural products, mind-body approaches, energy therapies, herbal medicines, and interventions based on medical systems such as TCM or Ayurvedic medicine.