NIH

American  

1. National Institutes of Health.

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NIH British  

abbreviation

1. National Institutes of Health

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NIH Cultural  

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.

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

Example Sentences

In 2025, the NIH doled out about $36 billion to universities, much of it to medical school researchers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

This content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

So likely wrong, in fact, that Chief Justice John Roberts actually dissented from California, and dissented again in NIH!

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

The effort of Katarnut Tobunluepop and Zihan Wang was supported by NIH grants.

From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026

Although this attitude wasn’t uncommon at the time, NIH guidelines stipulated that all human subject research funded by NIH—as McKusick’s was —required both informed consent and approval from a Hopkins review board.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot