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The National Institutes of Health (NIH
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) campus is located in Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda () is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in ...
. Most of the institutes house their Divisions of Intramural Research on this campus spread out among various buildings.
Location
The campus is located betweenOld Georgetown Road
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on the west, Wisconsin Avenue
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on the east, West Cedar Lane on the North, and downtown Bethesda on the south. The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
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is located directly across Wisconsin Ave. from the campus, and the Washington, D.C. border is less than three miles to the south. The Medical Center Washington Metro
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stop is located just beyond the campus fence along Wisconsin Ave.
History
The Bethesda campus has been occupied since 1938 when the original National Institute of Health began to expand outside of Washington, D.C. The Clinical Center, Building 10, opened in 1953 with 540 beds, thus allowing forclinical research
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. Launched in the wake of Nazi
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medical experiments done during World War II
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, research protocols here fell under ethical review by a review board.
Buildings
There are over fifty buildings on the Bethesda campus with designated numbers.Security
As afederal government
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facility housing sensitive research, the Bethesda campus has security measures for the safety of employees, patients, and visitors. A Department of Health and Human Services
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identification card is needed for immediate access. Visitors must have a government issued photo ID for a pass, and their vehicles and/or persons undergo inspections./ref>
See also
*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 ...
*Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda () is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in ...
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