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1. National Institutes of Health, NIHnoun

   an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government

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1. 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 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The majority of NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland, and other nearby suburbs of the Washington metropolitan area, with other primary facilities in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and smaller satellite facilities located around the United States. The NIH conducts its own scientific research through the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program. As of 2013, the IRP had 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows in basic, translational, and clinical research, being the largest biomedical research institution in the world, while, as of 2003, the extramural arm provided 28% of biomedical research funding spent annually in the U.S., or about US$26.4 billion.The NIH comprises 27 separate institutes and centers of different biomedical disciplines and is responsible for many scientific accomplishments, including the discovery of fluoride to prevent tooth decay, the use of lithium to manage bipolar disorder, and the creation of vaccines against hepatitis, Haemophilus influenzae (HIB), and human papillomavirus (HPV).In 2019, the NIH was ranked number two in the world, behind Harvard University, for biomedical sciences in the Nature Index, which measured the largest contributors to papers published in a subset of leading journals from 2015 to 2018.

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1. nih

   The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program.

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1. NIH

   What does NIH stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the NIH acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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How to pronounce NIH?

1. Alex

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of NIH in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of NIH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of NIH in a Sentence

1. Larry Kramer:

   (There is) very bad news that we discovered that NIH (the National Institutes of Health) is woefully behind on researching AIDS which is...shocking.

2. Bhavisha Patel:

   I believe that is what is challenging when we think about treatment, because it’s so heterogeneous, both at NIH and worldwide, the groups that have dedicated themselves to VEXAS are looking for medical therapies to offer to other patients who don’t qualify for a bone marrow transplant.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   The United States government should use every tool available to lower outrageously high prescription drug prices, nIH has the power to stop this blatant profiteering and put the pharmaceutical industry on notice that the era of charging unconscionable prices must end.

4. Francis Collins:

   They were not approved by NIH for doing gain of function research, we are of course not aware of other sources of funds or other activities they might have undertaken outside of what our approved grant allowed.

5. Marty Makary:

   Well, 100% certainty that NIH tax dollars went to the Wuhan Virology Institute through an organization called Ecohealth.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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