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

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
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Finding
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Comment |
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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 |
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Largest single award | $1.4 million | Bazan, others from LSU on Omega-3 and brain injury |
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Big winner/largest
total awards |
$1.8-million | Bruce Rosen, Mass General;’
2 grants related to mechanisms |
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Awards by Category | ||||
Herbs | 10 | |||
Other
supplements, related |
12 | Total for “supplements” is 22,
or roughly 42% of the awards |
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Mindbody | 6 | |||
Yoga | 3 | |||
Acupuncture | 4 | Total for yoga, acupuncture, manipulation and massage = 12, 23% of awards |
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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 |
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Whole practice/ whole systems projects |
0 | There may have been no applications, perhaps from investigator views that the scoring would be negative |
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Integrative clinic or health system connected projects |
3 | See Aickin, Bock, Hersch, Napadow, Rosen |
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Total to CAM schools | 2 | National University of Health Science & Palmer College. Both manipulation-related. |
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Total to ND or AOM schools | 0 | Perhaps no applicants | ||
% awards to CAM schools | 3.8% | 5.5% of funds ($1.04 million) |
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.

Using $18-Million from the Obama Stimulus Package
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 |
KAMAT, DEEPAK MADHUSUDAN;MAHAJAN, PRASHANT ;MATHUR, AMBIKA ; |
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY |
$ 441,460 |
R21 | GINSENG AND ITS CONSTITUENTS IN COMPLEMENTARY BREAST CANCER THERAPY |
MURPHY, LAURA L |
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE |
$ 181,875 |
R21 | PHASE I STUDY TO EVALUATE SAFETY AND TOXICITY OF EGCG IN HIV-1-INFECTED SUBJECTS |
NANCE, CHRISTINA L |
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE |
$ 17,560 |
R01 | BRAIN PLASTICITY IN CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME AND ITS RESPONSE TO ACUPUNCTURE |
NAPADOW, VITALY |
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL |
$ 314,873 |
R21 | SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACID AND CALCIUM ON BONE MASS |
PARK, YEONHWA |
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST |
$ 152,098 |
RC2 | SPECTROMETRIC VALIDATION OF BOTANICAL MATERIALS AND REFERENCE STANDARDS |
PAULI, GUIDO F |
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO |
$ 605,846 |
R01 | MULTISITE RCT INVESTIGATING THE EFFICACY OF MASSAGE IN OSTEOARTHRITIS |
PERLMAN, ADAM ISRAEL |
UNIV OF MED/ DENT OF NJ-SCH/HLTH REL PRO |
$ 708,553 |
U19 | DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER TO STUDY MECHANISMS & EFFECTS OF CHIROPRACTIC MANIPULATION |
PICKAR, JOEL G |
PALMER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC |
$ 578,853 |
R01 | MECHANISMS OF MEDITATION |
RAISON, CHARLES |
EMORY UNIVERSITY |
$ 292,379 |
P01 | NEUROIMAGING ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTS ON HUMAN BRAIN ACTIVITY |
ROSEN, BRUCE R |
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL |
$ 1,200,061 |
P30 | CORE CENTER FOR MULTIMODAL EVAULATION OF ACUPUNCTURE MECHANISMS |
ROSEN, BRUCE R |
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL |
$ 593,196 |
R21 | LACTOGENIC IMMUNITY/PROBIOTICS: EFFECT ON NEONATAL GUT IMMUNITY |
SAIF, LINDA J. |
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY |
$ 225,000 |
R01 | SAFE & EFFECTIVE YOGA PRESCRIPTION FOR OLDER ADULTS: BIOMECHANICAL CONSIDERATIONS |
GREENDALE, GAIL A;SALEM, GEORGE J ; |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA |
$ 693,593 |
RC1 | IMAGING CEREBRAL AND SUB-CEREBRAL CORRELATES OF MEDITATIVE STATES |
SCHWARTZ, ERIC LEE |
BOSTON UNIVERSITY |
$ 499,636 |
R21 | HERB-INDUCED OXIDANT PRECONDITIONING IN CARDIOMYOCYTES |
SHAO, ZUO-HUI ZUOHUI |
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO |
$ 234,000 |
RC1 | RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL MRI INVESTIGATION OF HYPNOTIC TRANCE AND MINDFULNESS MED |
SPIEGEL, DAVID |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY |
$ 441,653 |
P30 | CAM APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT OF SLEEP AND DISEASE PROGRESSION IN CANCER |
SPIEGEL, DAVID |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY |
$ 630,379 |
RC1 | COENZYME Q10 IN STATIN MYOPATHY |
THOMPSON, PAUL DAVIS |
HARTFORD HOSPITAL |
$ 457,436 |
R21 | MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF ANGELICA SINENSIS (OLIV.) DIELS IN WOMEN’S HEALTH |
WANG, ZAIJIE JIM |
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO |
$ 106,350 |
R01 | VITAMIN C IN POLYMICROBIAL SEPSIS |
WILSON, JOHN |
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO |
$ 24,619 |
R01 | VITAMIN C IN POLYMICROBIAL SEPSIS |
WILSON, JOHN |
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO |
$ 32,964 |
R01 | IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS OF ARGININE SUPPLEMENTATION IN COLITIS AND COLON CANCER |
WILSON, KEITH T |
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY |
$ 310,000 |
RC2 | CREATION OF A MARINE NATURAL PRODUCTS LIBRARY TO ENHANCE LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH |
WRIGHT, AMY E |
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY |
$ 799,967 |
Total NCCAM |
$17,897,020 | |||
Total NIH |
$5-billion | |||
% NCCAM |
0.36% |
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