Institution
United States National Institutes of Health
Also Known As NIH · Hygienic Laboratory · National Institute of Health (singular, used until 1948)
National Health Agency
The United States medical research agency, a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, whose mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. It traces its roots to 1887, when a one room laboratory was created within the Marine Hospital Service, the predecessor agency to the US Public Health Service. It is made up of 27 institutes and centers, each with a specific research agenda, and its headquarters campus is at 9000 Rockville Pike in Bethesda, Maryland. Hundreds of Nobel Prize winning scientists conducted their work at NIH or were supported by its funds.
Facts
Founding YearThe agency's own dating of its roots: the year a one room laboratory was created within the Marine Hospital Service; the visited pages give no single later founding date for the institution as such. HeadquartersBethesda, Maryland, United States 1 Connections
Associated With
the Framingham Heart Study, launched 1948, has been directed since 1971 through NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in partnership with Boston University
In Branch
Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
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Sources
1. United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
US National Institutes of HealthHistory page, roots
The National Institutes of Health traces its roots to 1887, when a one-room laboratory was created within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), predecessor agency to the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS).
About NIH page, mission
NIH's mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
About NIH page, campus
The NIH headquarters, known as the NIH campus, are located in Bethesda, Maryland.
Program classification, entity description sentence
The United States medical research agency, a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, whose mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
- In Branch: Public Health, About NIH, health mission
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WikipediaLead section, origin clause
Hygienic Laboratory
Lead section, 1948 renaming sentence
In 1948, the name changed from National Institute of Health to National Institutes of Health.
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