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Roger William Coghill MA (Cantab.) C. Biol. MI Biol. MA Environ Mgt |
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I was born on 3rd July 1940 in London, but spent the first years of my life in rural Leicestershire, (thereby acquiring a love of nature and the natural environment, a formative influence). After the war I returned to London with my parents to live in Hammersmith. By the time I was twelve I had more or less equal experience of country and city life. In London part of the time was spent at my grandparents' Georgian house in Norland Square, Holland Park. The family background on my father's side was of a minor but old and distinguished English family, living mainly in the region of Oxford and the home counties West of London. The family coat of arms motto is "Non Dormit qui Custodit" (No peace for the guy looking after the place). Sir Christopher Wren, the famous architect of St. Paul's cathedral ( and also the chapel of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, see below) married an ancestor Faith Coghill and had issue by him. Other connections include the academic Nevill Coghill, Merton professor of poetry at Oxford. James H. Coghill was one of the California pioneers largely associated with the development of San Francisco, and one of its major business men in the 1850s. I am a freeman of the City of London and a liveryman of the Baker's Company in that City. Probably the family name is best enshrined, however, in the exploit at the battle of Isandlwana ("Rorke's Drift") by Lieut. Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill of the 24th Welsh Regiment, when he brought back the Regimental colours to Natal from Zululand, losing his life but gaining a Victoria Cross posthumously in the process. Though admittedly his courageous act was blameless, the battle itself was a despicable act of British aggression and foolhardiness against a sovereign state, yet has somehow become the subject of several films (e.g. "Zulu", "Zulu Dawn"). On my mother's side the flavour is quite different: radical South Welsh, coalmining, and political. Her uncle Frank Hodges was a leading light in the early Labour party, though he later became a director of the General Electric Company UK, and other firms. I guess these twin themes also permeate my own character. I was married first in 1966 at the family church, Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, and had four children of the marriage, now dissolved after 23 years. My second marriage in 1998, was to Tamara Galonja, MSc., a microbiologist from Novi Sad University, Yugoslavia, and we now have a young son, Alexander. Academic Qualifications I was educated at the City of London School for Boys via an LCC Scholarship. The CLS is a minor public school situated on London's Victoria Embankment, and founded originally in 1400 by John Carpenter. From there I gained an Open Scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was awarded an Upper Second Honours in Classics before taking Honours in Natural Sciences as a Senior Exhibitioner in 1962, with the honorary MA in 1965. (The Cambridge University MA is awarded automatically after two years provided the candidate can stay out of prison). In 1995 I became Chartered as a biologist and Member of the Institute of Biology, and am on the Institute Committee for South Wales. In 1997 I gained an MA in Environmental Management at the University of Wales. Affiliations include membership of the IEEE EMF exposure Standards subcommittee SSC228, the full membership of the Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European Bioelectromagnetics Association. I own 100% of Coghill Research Laboratories, the research division of Medcross Limited, which I founded in 1981. The laboratory specialises in bioelectromagnetics, the science investigating the interaction of electricity and magnetism with organic life, effectswhich can be both good and bad. The beneficial aspects are seen in magnetotherapy (a subject on which I am presently writing a book for Gaia Books), and the bad side is commonly called electropllution. My publications, which touch on all these themes, include "The Dark Side of the Brain" (Element Books, 1989) "Electropollution", (Thorsons, 1990), "Electrohealing", (Thorsons, 1992), "All Fall Down" (CRL, 1994), and "Something in the Air" (CRL, 1998). In addition we provide a large website of bioelectromagnetics information, of as much interest to those concerned about cellphone masts as those with tennis elbow. Our laboratory has also organised a number of conferences over the years, including the First World Congress on Magnetotherapy in London in 1996 and the other on the Effects of electricity and magnetism on the Natural World in Madeira in 1998. I have also published a number of peer reviewed and conference papers and posters, press articles, and made media appearances on TV and radio, both in this country and abroad. Peer reviewed papers include studies of the ELF electric and magnetic fields in bedplaces of children with leukaemia and laboratory investigations into the role of the body's endogenous fields. The laboratory is fully equipped to carry out cellular studies, but we do not as a policy conduct experiments on animals. Products of the laboratory include therapeutic magnets and ELF EM field measuring devices. Brief description of the Laboratory The laboratory has been considerably expanded in recent years, and now consists of five main units, employing around ten personnel four of whom are life sciences or physics graduates or of doctorate status. The Microbiology unit comprises a room with laminar flow hood, centrifuges, an incubator with double skinned mu-metal cladding for radiation free incubation, Clark oxygen electrode, digital pH meter, Mettler and other electronic balances and the usual laboratory glassware and chemicals for cell biology. The Analytical Chemistry unit includes a single beam Unicam photospectrometer (UV/Vis/IR), a dual beam Unicam spectrophotometer with auto sampler and Vision II software, an Infrared spectrophotometer, and a Polaris Q GC/MS instrument with autosampler, The Biotechnology unit includes two PCR thermal cyclers (GeneAmp PCR 9600 and Hybaid Sprint) and a Waters HPLC system. The Biophysics unit includes (inter alia) a Farnell spectrum analyser, Tectronix digital oscilloscope, matched function generators, mu-metal shielded incubators, and a battery of data loggers and ELF/RF measuring instruments, the Microscopy and Digital Imaging unit includes one Olympus BX50 microscope with BFI-Optilas computer driven video capture, one Olympus BX40 microscope with Q-Imaging and Auto Montage Pro computerised control of the motorised Z-axis, an Olympus inverted microscope for fluorescence work, a travelling microscope and a portable field microscope. In a separate building the Graphics and Website Development unit provides the capability of video frame-grabbing, high resolution scanner and double video editing a suite for computer-based graphics and video editing. The company uses digital video cameras for field and other filming. Our Library of papers, journals and books on bioelectromagnetics is probably among the largest in its field in the country. There is also a separate Machine Shop , and a small electronics engineering laboratory. An underground radiation free screened room is in course of construction. Accounts and order processing, office machines, and the main computing facility and data storage are in a separate building. The company's 20 PC computers are all linked via a LAN network system, with access to the Internet available from individual machines and by a dual 2 GHz Broadband Uplink. Laptops can be linked in via direct cable connection. For external presentations laptops and a video projection unit, as well as slide and overhead projectors are normally used. In total the site comprises some five acres and four buildings, with a fifth building presently under construction. Peer reviewed publications and accepted conference presentations from the laboratory include: Coghill RW and Baghurst R (2005). Melatonin: a review of the evidence for an anti-aging role. Nutrition Practitioner (in press 2005) Coghill RW and Baghurst, R. (2005) Inhibition of Melatonin synthesis in human peripheral blood lymphocytes by EMF: a Mechanism of Interaction? UNESCO/WHO Seminar: Molecular and Cellular mechanisms of Biological Effects of EMF. Yerevan, Armenia, March 2005 Conners C and Coghill RW (2005) Effect of high dilution quinones on O2 uptake by peripheral blood lymphocytes: could this correct EMF-induced metabolic change? UNESCO/WHO Seminar: Molecular and Cellular mechanisms of Biological Effects of EMF. Yerevan, Armenia, March 2005 Baghurst R and Coghill RW (2005) EMF and Plant Melatonin Synthesis: Evaluating melatonin levels in plant tissues and its dietary and health implications for radioprotection. UNESCO/WHO Seminar: Molecular and Cellular mechanisms of Biological Effects of EMF. Yerevan, Armenia, March 2005 Coghill RW (2004) Melatonin - a molecule for the modern age. Inst. Compl. Med J October 2004 Coghill RW (2001). Double blind trial of a magnetic bracelet claimed to reduce pain associated with arthritis In: Procs 23rd Ann Mtg. Bioelectromagnetics Socy., St Paul Minnesota, June 2001 Coghill RW and Galonja-Coghill T (2001). Flawed Epidemiology? The case for an electric field metric in childhood cancer studies. In: Procs 5th Intl Congress of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association, Helsinki, Finland September 2001. Coghill, RW & Tamara Galonja-Coghill, T., Protective Effect of a Donor’s Cutaneous Electric Fields on Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Viability. Electro- and Magnetobiology, March 2000. Coghill, RW., Steward, J, and Philips AM, Measured ELF electric and magnetic fields in the bedplace of children diagnosed with leukaemia. Europ. J,. Cancer Prev. 5: 153-158 (1996) Coghill RW., Measured ELF electric and magnetic fields in the bedplace of leukaemic children Biophysics 41: 809-816 1996 Coghill RW., (1996) Pilot Study of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields in the bedplace of children diagnosed with leukaemia: a case-control study. Biofizika 41(4): 798-806 (In Russian) Some Recent Conference Papers and Presentations Poster Presentation on endogenous electric fields and donor influence, Gordon Conference on Biochemistry, Boston College, New London MA, July 2004 Coghill RW (2003). 17th Internatl. Symposium on Bioenergetics and Bioelectrochemistry Florence, June 2003 Coghill RW and Galonja-Coghill T (2000) Protective effect of a donor’s cutaneous electric filds on lymphocyte viability. Procs Intl Seminar on Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on the Living Environment, Ismaning Germany, October 1999) International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection Pub. 10/2000 Consumer Concerns: Fooling All The People, All The Time? An overview by Roger Coghill. In: 3rd Conf. on Mobile Phones; Is there a health hazard?, London November, 1998 Coghill RW and Galonja-Coghill T. Endogenous fields and human peripheral blood lymphocytes. 4th EBEA Congress, Zagreb, November 1998. Coghill RW, and Galonja-Coghill T. (1998) Is there a biophysical communication system linking mammalian brain rhythms to eukaryotic cells? 20th Ann Mtg. Bioelectromagnetics Soc., St. Pete Beach, Florida, US, June 1998 Use of naturally occurring frequencies in therapeutic medicine: Experience with the Medicur device. 9th Intl. Montreux Conf. on Stress, Montreux, February 1997. R.W. Coghill Effects of Max Stress Controller weak 1.6Hz. EM fields on human encephalic rhythms. Roger Coghill , 9th Intl. Montreux Conf. on Stress, Montreux, February 1997. Coghill RW., ELF electric and magnetic fields in the bedplaces of persons suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME): a case-control study. P61, Ann. Rev. Research on Biological effects of electric and magnetic fields from the generation, transmission, delivery and use of electricity. San Diego, California, November 13-17, 1997 GERASIMOV S COGHILL RW et al., (1996) Cutaneous uptake of oxygen under the influence of a 10mT constant magnetic field. 3rd Intl. EBEA Congress, Nancy, France March 1996. Kemshead, JW, Wing J., & Coghill RW., (1996) Effects of 400mT neodymium magnets on three cancer cell lines. London, May 1996. BOOKS: The Healing Energies of Light Octopus Books 2002 The Book of Magnet Healing Octopus Books 2000 Something in the Air, CRL Publications, 1997 Electrohealing, Thorsons Publishers, 1992 Electropollution, Thorsons Publishers, 1990 The Dark Side of the Brain (H. Oldfield co-author), Element Books, 1989 (translated into Rumanian, 1996) Revised: April 2005 |
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