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The
National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
(NIH) is an agency of the
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and is the primary agency of the
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government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. It comprises 27 separate institutes and centers (ICs) that carry out its mission in different areas of biomedical research. It also includes the Office of the Director, which sets policies and coordinates activities of the 27 ICs.


Institutes


Centers of the NIH

In addition to being divided by research area, NIH has many operating groups called centers operating across all of the Institutes.


Office of the Director

The Office of the Director is the central office at NIH. The OD is responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. Program offices in the Office of the Director are responsible for stimulating specific areas of research throughout NIH and for planning and supporting research and related activities. Current program areas are: minority health, women's health, AIDS research, disease prevention, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, President
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH. On August 7, 2009, the
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confirmed Collins by unanimous vote. Program offices within the Office of the Director fund research through the institutes:


See also

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List of Max Planck Institutes Max Planck Institutes are research institutions operated by the Max Planck Society. There are over 80 institutes. Most of them are located in Germany, although there are other locations in other European countries and the United States. Institute ...
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Center of Advanced European Studies and Research The Center of Advanced European Study and Research (CAESAR) was founded in 1995 as part of the compensatory actions under the Berlin/Bonn law, which were intended to support structural change in the region of the former capital. In 2022, the inst ...
* Ernst Strüngmann Institute * List of IBS Centers


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Institutes at NIH
{{National Institutes of Health List of NIH ICs
NIH The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
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