Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
June 20, 2024

I’m proud to share that the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has just announced a new funding opportunity under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Whole Person Initiative that will transform our ability to conduct whole person research. NCCIH, along with 14 other Institutes, Centers, and Offices at NIH, is seeking applications to establish a Whole Person Research and Coordination Center (Whole Person RCC) that will provide the necessary infrastructure to help researchers explore how our bodies’ different systems interact with one another.  

The funding opportunity is designed to support two distinct objectives. The first is to build a conceptual map of the healthy human whole person physiome to represent all physiological organ system functions and identify Common Data Elements appropriate for each major physiological function. The second objective will be to populate the conceptual map using existing longitudinal datasets and build at least one in silico model prototype illustrating the whole person physiome and associated clinical measurements.