Lighting Institutions & Research

Lighting Research Links

Before the discovery of Antibiotics, studies were being conducted in healing with light; and now we re-examining the power of light.  Important research is being conducted in lighting at universities, hospitals, and even outer space, where the next astronauts’ sleeping quarters will have color tunable lighting.
This page provides links to these and other current lighting standards and research projects.

Lighting Research University & Medical Centers

• CCCP - Columbia Clinical Chronobiology Program – www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/nyspi/sad
• CLTBR – Center for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, New York Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia & Cornell – wo-pub2.med.cornell.edu/cgibin/WebObjects/PublicA.woa
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• HMI – Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Biological Clocks Virtual Museum – www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/museum
• HMS – Harvard Medical School, Eva Schernhammer Dr.P.H. M.D. – www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/membership/member-profile/member/9432/0
• LRC - Lighting Research Center – www.lrc.rpi.edu
• NHLBI – National Institutes of Health Bethesda Campus – dir.nhlbi.nih.gov
• Stanford - Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine - sleep.stanford.edu
• TAM- CRBC - Center for Research on Biological Clocks at Texas A&M – www.bio.tamu.edu/clocks
• TJU – Thomas Jefferson University, George Brainard, Ph.D. – www.jefferson.edu/Neurology/faculty_profile.cfm?key=gxb116
• USC – University of South Carolina Circadian Rhythm Laboratory – www.circadian.org
• VU - Vanderbilt University – Johnson Lab – www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/johnsonlab/index.html#research

Lighting Design Associations

• CIE - International Commission on Illumination - http://www.cie.co.at/
• IDA – International Dark Sky Association – www.darksky.org
• IESNA – Illuminating Engineering Society of North America – www.iesna.org
• ISC – International Society for Chronobiology – www.chronoint.org
• ISCC – Inter-Society Color Council – www.iscc.org
• LRC - Lighting Research Center –www.lrc.rpi.edu
• NLB – National Lighting Bureau – www.nlb.org
• Lighting Europe - http://www.lightingeurope.org/

Lighting Science Associations

• AAMCC – American Association for Medical Chronobiology and Chronotherapeutics – www.aamcc.net
  
• AASM – American Academy of Sleep Medicine – www.aasmnet.org
• ASSIST – Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies – www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/solidstate/assist
• CCB – Chinese Chronobiology – www.chrono-biology.net/English/English-index.htm
• CI – Chronobiology International,The Journal of Biological and Medical Rhythm Research – www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713597233~db=all
• CMDRB – LACG – Latin American Chronobiology Group – www.crono.icb.usp.br/indexi.htm
• CSS – Canadian Sleep Society – www.css.to
• EBRS – European Biological Rhythms Society – www.ebrs.info
• FENS – Federation of European Neuroscience Societies – fens.mdc-berlin.de
• GSA – Gerontological Society of America – www.geron.org
• ISC – International Society for Chronobiology – www.chronoint.org
• ISCC – Inter-Society Color Council – www.iscc.org
• MAYO CLINIC – www.mayoclinic.com
• MCSL – Munsell Color Science Laboratory – www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl
• NIH – National Institutes of Health – nih.gov
• NSF – National Sleep Foundation – www.sleepfoundation.org
• SFN – Society for Neuroscience – www.sfn.org
• SLTBR – Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms – www.sltbr.org
• SRBR – Society for Research in Biological Rhythms – www.srbr.org
• SRS – Sleep Research Society – www.sleepresearchsociety.org
• TAM- CRBC – Center for Research on Biological Clocks at Texas A&M – www.bio.tamu.edu/clocks

Lighting Codes & Standards

• International WELL Building Institute - www.wellcertified.com
• LEEDS - U.S. Green Building Council - www.usgbc.org/leed
• Title 24 - California Energy Commission - www.energy.ca.gov/title24
• U.S. Department of Energy - www.energy.gov
  

Lighting Governmental Organizations

• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Sleep - http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssleep/
  
• DOE - Department of Energy, United States -http://energy.gov/
  
• U.S. Dept. of Labor - WORKERS ON FLEXIBLE AND SHIFT SCHEDULES IN MAY 2004 - www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/flex.pdf
• PubMed.gov - U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health - Circadian misalignment augments markers of insulin resistance and inflammation, independently of sleep loss. - © 2014 by the American Diabetes Association.- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24458353