IT’IS
The MMF has supported the work of the Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT’IS) in Switzerland for the past 5 years. The Foundation itself conducts a wide variety of dosimetry and measurement projects, and has designed and constructed state-of-the-art exposure systems that have been used in many of the biological research projects discussed above.

International Inter-laboratory SAR comparison program
A program established with the University of Maryland and undertaken in conjunction with the United States Food and Drug Administration through a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA).The program has developed a replicable Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) assessment protocol that is being used for inter-laboratory verification of mobile handset SAR values.

Thermal and RF modelling of cellular phone exposure
This is a four-year research project being carried out by the Department of Radiotherapy at Utrecht’s University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. The principal objective of the project is to further investigate the temperature rise induced by mobile phone exposure using newly developed 3D high-resolution imaging techniques.

Development of simulated tissue equivalent dielectric materials
This was a program undertaken by the University of Bordeaux in France in order to develop materials that effectively simulated the dielectric properties of the human body. Such materials are used in SAR testing in order to demonstrate compliance with relevant safety standards.