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The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Many NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland, and ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. [1] It comprises 27 separate institutes and centers (ICs) that carry out its mission in different areas of biomedical ...
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government's major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, [4] its mission is to "improve the health and wealth of the nation through research". [5]
Inserm is the only public research institution solely focused on human health and medical research in France. [1] It is a public institution with a scientific and technical vocation under the dual auspices of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Research. [citation needed] Similarly to the US National Institutes of Health, Inserm conducts ...
National Jewish Health is a Denver, Colorado academic hospital/clinic doing research and treatment in respiratory, cardiac, immune and related disorders. It is an internationally respected medical center that draws people from many countries to receive care. Founded in 1899 to treat tuberculosis, [1] it is non-sectarian but had funding from B ...
The United States National Library of Medicine ( NLM ), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. [5] Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health. Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts ...
The Bethesda campus has been occupied since 1938 when the original National Institute of Health began to expand outside of Washington, D.C. [1] The Clinical Center, Building 10, opened in 1953 with 540 beds, thus allowing for clinical research. Launched in the wake of Nazi medical experiments done during World War II, research protocols here ...
The NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) is the internal research program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), known for its synergistic approach to biomedical science. With 1,200 Principal Investigators and over 4,000 Postdoctoral Fellows conducting basic, translational , and clinical research, the NIH Intramural Research Program is ...