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NIH Organization
Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ (NIH) today is one of the world’s foremost medical research centers. An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. Read more »
NIH Office of the Director
The Office of the Director (OD) is responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all 27 of NIH's Institutes and Centers. The OD program offices include the , , , The and , among others.
NIH Institutes
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Cancer Institute (NCI)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Eye Institute (NEI)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute on Aging (NIA)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ Library of Medicine (NLM)
NIH Centers
This page last reviewed on June 14, 2018