NIH

1. National Institutes of Health.

NIH

abbreviation

1. National Institutes of Health

NIH

1. A U.S. government agency headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, which conducts and supports a wide range of medical research. NIH comprises thirteen separate agencies, each responsible for a different aspect of health, such as allergy and immunology, heart and lung, and so on. NIH also plays a role in training research scientists and providing and distributing biological and medical information.

A good portion of the funding for basic biomedical research is funneled through this agency.

Example Sentences

The research, published recently in Nature Immunology and funded by the National Cancer Institute/NIH, focused on finding new ways to help the immune system recognize and destroy tumors that normally evade detection.

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Kennedy also revealed $50 million in new NIH grants to investigate the possible causes of autism.

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Mr. Hall, who made a highly publicized departure from the NIH after charging the agency’s leadership with censoring his work, surely has insights he could have shared.

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Academic research is a cornerstone of U.S. pharmaceutical R&D: A 2020 study found that “NIH funding contributed to research associated with every new drug approved from 2010-2019, totaling $230 billion.”

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Lin ruled that the NIH grants were suspended by form letters that were unspecific to the research, a likely violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, which regulates executive branch rulemaking.

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