June 10, 2004... The U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) was ready to spend some $10 million on RF research, but no one wanted it. In February, the NTP issued a request for proposals to carry out a number of animal studies on the possible cancer risks associated with wireless communications. Not a single lab responded by the April 8 deadline. No other RF studies are underway in the U.S. at this time. When asked for a comment in mid-June, Dr. Ron Melnick of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, NC, who is coordinating the NTP RF effort, replied, “We hope to have a solution shortly.” Most observers had expected the Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs in Richland and the IIT Research Institute in Chicago to bid for this work. Both labs have carried out large-scale EMF–animal studies for the NIEHS and/or the NTP in the past.
 

June 10, 2004... The Swiss Research Foundation on Mobile Communications, based in Zurich, is asking for proposals for research on a host of EMF related topics, including health and safety studies, dosimetry projects and work on risk perception. Each award will be on the order of 100,000 SFr (about US$80,000). Pre-proposals are due by September 1 and complete applications by November 30. Dr. Gregor Dürrenberger, the head of the foundation, told us that he expects to announce the awards in mid-December. For more information, contact: info@mobile-research.ethz.ch.


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