NCCAM's 2009 Grants with Obama's Recovery Money: The List of 52 Awards Totaling $17.8-Million
Written by John Weeks
NCCAM's 2009 Grants with Obama's Recovery Money: The List of 52 Awards Totaling $17.8-Million
Summary: Credit Integrator reader Tayor Walsh for diving into files on the Obama economic stimulus/American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) site to create this list of the 52 ARRA grants awarded by the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in 2009. The first year grants totaled roughly $18-million of $32-million NCCAM will be disbursing. (The NCCAM total will ultimately be 0.39% of the $8.2-billion of ARRA funds to the NIH.) Included in this report are subjects, investigators, institutions, amounts and kind of award, plus some Integrator analysis of the types of grants awarded. Thanks Taylor.
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Curious about the portion of Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds that were distributed through the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine? What has this "stimulus package" money meant to CAM research?
Yesterday, a colleague on the board of trustees of the American Botanical Council asked me what I knew about these awards. I told her I'd not explored it. I then opened a timely email from Integrator contributor Taylor Walsh: "I
don't see a summary of the ARRA funds for NCCAM on your site." Not finding it, Walsh worked with government public affairs officials, located the information and built an Excel file of NCCAM's awards which he sent to the Integrator to share with all of you. Information from his file is at the bottom of this posting. The following table is my quick summary which I extracted from the information Walsh assembled.
Topic
Finding
Comment
Total NIH ARRA awards
$8.2 billion
# NCCAM awards
52
Total NCCAM 2009 awards
$17.8 million
This is of $32-million total
Average NCCAM award
$342,307
A few were as low as $5,000,
and another group in the 5-digit
range
Largest single award
$1.4 million
Bazan, others from LSU
on Omega-3 and brain injury
Big winner/largest
total awards
$1.8-million
Bruce Rosen, Mass General;'
2 grants related to mechanisms
in acupuncture
Awards by Category
Herbs
10
Other
supplements, related
12
Total for "supplements" is 22,
or roughly 42% of the awards
Mindbody
6
Yoga
3
Acupuncture
4
Total for yoga, acupuncture,
manipulation and massage = 12,
23% of awards
Manipulation
4
Massage
1
Perlman, osteoarthritis
Health services/cost issues
1
Lafferty; cost, medical
service use, quality of care; it
is significant, at $800,000
Whole practice/
whole systems projects
0
There may have been no
applications, perhaps from
investigator views that the
scoring would be negative
Integrative clinic or health
system connected projects
3
See Aickin, Bock, Hersch,
Napadow, Rosen
Total to CAM schools
2
National University of Health
Science & Palmer College. Both
manipulation-related.
Total to ND or AOM schools
0
Perhaps no applicants
% awards to CAM schools
3.8%
5.5% of funds ($1.04 million)
Disclaimer: Some categories are not obvious. This is all ballpark.
NCCAM had announced its plan to: "select recently peer reviewed highly meritorious research grant applications
(R01s and others), that can be accomplished in 2 years or less; fund new research applications; accelerate the tempo of ongoing science through targeted supplements to current
grants; support new types of activities such as the NIH Challenge Grant program that
meet the goals of the ARRA; and use other funding mechanisms as appropriate." In short, NCCAM cast a potentially broad net, a caught these fish.
Walsh's prior contributions to the Integrator have included a list of NCCAM grants by type and and a report on NCCAM director Josephine Briggs, MD's first public session with the NCCAM advisory council. If you want a copy of the entire spread sheet Walsh created, with additional information about the grants, please contact me directly. Thanks much, Taylor.
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Taylor Walsh: Did the research
52 NCCAM-funded Projects Using $18-Million from the Obama Stimulus Package
Source: ARRA site, as extracted by Taylor Walsh
Activity
Project Title
Principal
Investigator
Organization
FY Total Cost
R21
MELATONIN
AND NIGHTTIME BLOOD PRESSURE IN AFRICAN AMERICANS
ABRAMSON,
JEROME L. ;CHAPMAN, ARLENE B;PARKER, KATHLYN A;TERRY, PAUL D;
EMORY
UNIVERSITY
$ 252,456
RC1
CER
COLLABORATION: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AND MARINO CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH
AICKIN,
MIKEL G
UNIVERSITY
OF ARIZONA
$ 496,544
R21
EFFECTIVENESS
OF INTEGRAL YOGA ON OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MENOPAUSAL HOT FLASHES
AVIS,
NANCY E
WAKE
FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
$ 147,694
R21
URINARY
PEPTIDE EXCRETION AND ONSET OF PUBERTY
BARNES,
STEPHEN
UNIVERSITY
OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
$ 65,721
R01
MEDITATION
AND EXERCISE FOR PREVENTION OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTION
BARRETT,
BRUCE P
UNIVERSITY
OF WISCONSIN MADISON
$ 726,891
RC2
MECHANISM
OF ACTION OF OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS IN BRAIN INJURY
BAZAN,
NICOLAS GUILLERMO ;PETASIS, NICOS A;SERHAN, CHARLES NICHOLAS;
LOUISIANA
STATE UNIV HSC NEW ORLEANS
$ 1,418,175
RC2
BIOMARKERS
OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE
BEAL,
M FLINT
WEILL
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIV
$ 735,348
R21
FATTY
ACID SUPPLEMENTATION IN MANAGEMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES
BELURY,
MARTHA A
OHIO
STATE UNIVERSITY
$ 63,432
R21
YOGA
FOR WOMEN ATTEMPTING SMOKING CESSATION: AN INITIAL INVESTIGATION
BOCK,
BETH C
MIRIAM
HOSPITAL
$ 252,009
RC1
STRESS,
CELLULAR AGING AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE
COHEN,
SHELDON A
CARNEGIE-MELLON
UNIVERSITY
$ 235,950
R01
Z
JOINT CHANGES IN LOW BACK PAIN FOLLOWING ADJUSTING
CRAMER,
GREGORY D
NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
$ 465,367
R01
MECHANISMS
OF IMMUNOMODULATORY AND ANTI-TUMOR ACTIONS OF POLYSACCHARIDE KRESTIN
DISIS,
MARY L.
UNIVERSITY
OF WASHINGTON
$ 332,000
RC1
CONVENTIONAL
VS MINDFULNESS INTERVENTION IN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
DYKENS,
ELISABETH MAY
VANDERBILT
UNIVERSITY
$ 498,782
R21
BIOMECHANICAL
AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATIVE THERAPY
FRITZ,
JULIE M
UNIVERSITY
OF UTAH
$ 56,155
R21
EFFICACY
OF TURMERIC EXTRACT IN PREVENTION OF POST-MENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS
FUNK,
JANET L
UNIVERSITY
OF ARIZONA
$ 5,161
R21
EFFICACY
OF TURMERIC EXTRACT IN PREVENTION OF POST-MENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS
FUNK,
JANET L
UNIVERSITY
OF ARIZONA
$ 5,161
R21
ACUPUNCTURE
FOR THE TREATMENT OF INSOMNIA - A PILOT STUDY
GLICK,
RONALD M.
UNIVERSITY
OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
$ 46,588
R01
ROLE
OF A NOVEL E3-UBIQUITIN LIGASE IN CHEMOPREVENTION
HANNINK,
MARK
UNIVERSITY
OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
$ 82,585
R21
CHONDROPROTECTIVE
ACTIVITY OF POMEGRANATE EXTRACT
HAQQI,
TARIQ M
UNIVERSITY
OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
$ 137,004
P01
METABOLIC
AND IMMUNOLOGIC EFFECTS OF MEDITATION - CELL AGING SUPPLEMENT
HECHT,
FREDERICK M
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
$ 421,169
K23
OSTEOPATHIC
MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE IN PREGNANCY: PHYSIOLOGIC AND CLINICAL EFFECTS
HENSEL,
KENDI LEE
UNIVERSITY
OF NORTH TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR
$ 54,000
U01
CREATINE
SAFETY, TOLERABILITY, AND EFFICACY IN HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE: CREST-E
HERSCH,
STEVEN M
MASSACHUSETTS
GENERAL HOSPITAL
$ 298,820
R21
STRESS
AND PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES: OMEGA-3 INTERVENTION
KIECOLT-GLASER,
JANICE K
OHIO
STATE UNIVERSITY
$ 5,223
R21
STRESS
AND PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES: OMEGA-3 INTERVENTION
KIECOLT-GLASER,
JANICE K
OHIO
STATE UNIVERSITY
$ 5,223
R21
STRESS
AND PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES: OMEGA-3 INTERVENTION
KIECOLT-GLASER,
JANICE K
OHIO
STATE UNIVERSITY
$ 18,906
R01
CAM,
MEDICAL SERVICE UTILIZATION, AND QUALITY OF CARE
LAFFERTY,
WILLIAM E
UNIVERSITY
OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY
$ 800,988
R01
EFFECT
OF CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE ON FOOD ALLERGY
LI,
XIU-MIN
MOUNT
SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF NYU
$ 695,224
R21
THPB-CONTAINING
HERBAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG ABUSE
MANTSCH,
JOHN R
MARQUETTE
UNIVERSITY
$ 26,388
R21
THPB-CONTAINING
HERBAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG ABUSE
MANTSCH,
JOHN R
MARQUETTE
UNIVERSITY
$ 5,705
RC1
COMPARISON
OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CAM THERAPIES IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS UNDERGOING
