The 9th Meeting of Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM) will be held at Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, on August 23-25, 2010 (Monday - Wednesday). The Meeting 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. Three new sessions will be introduced at the upcoming meeting:

• Acupuncture
• Objective and Standard Assessments of Diagnosis in TCM
• Bioinformatics and Database II (Application of "Omics" in TCM Research) Session

Please refer to the program-at-a-glance for details.

You are cordially invited to join the meeting and encouraged to forward this message to your colleagues and friends so that more experts in various related fields and also interested in TCM would know about CGCM and join our upcoming 9^th CGCM Meeting.

Registration

Registration form should be returned to centraloffice@tcmedicine.org on or before the deadline. The maximum no. of the participants of the meeting will be 600 on first-come-first-served basis. You are advised to register as early as possible.

Call for Abstracts

Abstract Submission for Poster Presentations of the Meeting is now open for all CGCM members and invited guests. Any interested individual is required to submit abstract together with the Abstract Submission Form.

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

*Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 14, 2010 (Friday).

*Submitted abstracts should be sent to centraloffice@tcmedicine.org on or before the deadline with the attached abstract submission form.

Registration Fee

CGCM Members: Free

Local Universities and Academic Institutions: Free

Non-CGCM Members (Universities / Academic Institutions): HKD 3,000

Non-CGCM Members (Commercial / Business Enterprises): HKD8,000

 

Travel Grant

To support postgraduates to attend the 9th CGCM Meeting, up to 20 Travel Grants are now open for application. Awardees will receive up to USD 500 and free accommodation (shared room). 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.

 

 

You are always welcome to visit the meeting website http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~cgcm2010/ for updated information.

 

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

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