Dear All,
The 14th Meeting of Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM) will be held in London ON, Canada on August 18 - 20, 2015 (Tuesday - Thursday), Pre-meeting Workshops will also be held on August 17, 2015 (Monday). The Meeting is organized by University of Western Ontario (WesternUniversity). It provides a platform for regulatory-industrial-academic exchanges and potential research collaborations on various frontiers of Traditional Chinese Medicine among our worldwide CGCM members and guests.

The following themes will be addressed at the meeting:  

1.  Acupuncture  

2.  Bioinformatics:"Omics" Approach and Data Analysis 

3.  Clinical Investigation

• Cancer, Liver Disease and Inflammation
• Other Diseases and Safety

4.  Education 

5.  Herbal Resources

• Authentication
• Cultivation and Herbal Quality
• Identification, Formulation and Manufacturing

6.  Regulation and Interregional Collaborations in Industry and Academia 

7.  Natural Products

• Biological Activity
• Cancer, Virus and Inflammation
• Identification, Bio-transformation and Metabolism

8.  Polychemical Activities and Mechanism Study

• Cancer, Immunomodulation inflammation
• Metabolic, Neural Diseases, Aging Process and Others
• Metabolism, Drug Interaction and Toxicity

The program-at-a-glance has been attached for your information. You are cordially invited to join the meeting and encouraged to forward this message to your colleagues and friends who are interested in TCM for joining our upcoming 14^th CGCM Meeting.  For more details, please refer to the meeting website: http://conference.uwo.ca/cgcm.

Call for Abstracts

Abstract submission for poster presentations of the Meeting is now open for all CGCM members and invited guests. Please submit your abstracts together with the attached Abstract Submission Form to centraloffice@tcmedicine.org on or before May 31, 2015 (Sunday).

Highlights of the posters would be discussed during the relevant discussion sessions. Conclusions, action plans and milestones are expected to be drawn.

 Registration

Registration fee for the 14^th CGCM Meeting:

The registration fee includes the scientific and educational activities, meeting material, lunch and coffee break according to the program.

In order to claim the student and post-doctoral fellows’ discount, participants must present a valid proof of full-time enrollment at a University or College.  A photocopy of a current student ID must be shown on-site.

Online registration is now open for all participants to enroll.  To enjoy the early bird discount, please register on or before May 29, 2015 (EST 4pm) through the meeting website: https://www.conference.uwo.ca/cgcm_reg/index.cfm.

Accommodation Reservation

Varied accommodation options are available to CGCM guests during the meeting, please visit the website: http://conference.uwo.ca/cgcm/accommodation.cfm for the information.  On-campus accommodation will also be provided from August 16 to August 19, 2015 at special rates for CGCM guests, booking could be made by filling out the online reservation form.

Travel Grant 

To support postgraduates to attend the 14th CGCM Meeting, up to 50 Travel Grants are now open for application. Awardees will receive travel grant, free accommodation (shared room) and waiver of registration fee. You may wish to encourage your postgraduates to submit abstracts and apply for the Travel Grant.

New Institutional and Industrial Affiliate Membership

You are encouraged to take the initiative in inviting any potential institutions and companies, which are devoted to the research and development of herbal medicine, to join CGCM as Institutional or Industrial Affiliate Members. You may wish to provide the relevant contact person and information for us.

Thank you for your attention. Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us at centraloffice@tcmedicine.org.

We look forward to welcoming you in Canada!
With kind regards,

Yung-Chi Cheng

Chairman, CGCM

Lixing Lao, Ph.D., MB

Secretary General, CGCM