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NCCAM’s 2009 Grants with Obama’s Recovery Money: The List of 52 Awards Totaling $17.8-Million

John Weeks6 min read

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.

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.

Taylor Walsh: Did the research