Timeline of the National Institutes of Health
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Year/period | Type of event | Event | Location | |
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1887 | A one-room laboratory is created as an experiment within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), which is charged with preventing people with cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases from entering the United States.[1][2] | Staten Island, New York City[1] | ||
1891 | The laboratory is renamed Hygienic Laboratory and moves to Washington, D.C.[3] | |||
1901 | The United States Congress authorizes a $35,000 budget for the laboratory.[1] | |||
1901 | The Marine Hospital Service becomes the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service (in 1912 the Public Health Service becomes a separate agency).[3] | |||
1902 | The laboratory formalizes its divisions. The Division of Pathology and Bacteriology is joined by the Divisions of Chemistry, Zoology and Pharmacology. In order to emphazise the importance of basic research, the professional staff is filled out with scientists with doctoral degrees rather than physicians.[1] | |||
1906 | Hygienic Laboratory workers identify the milk supply as the cause in spreading typhoid in Washington D.C.[1] | |||
1930 | The National Institute (singular) of Health is founded, and the Hygienic Laboratory becomes its research nucleus. The United States Congress authorizes the payout of fellowship money for basic research.[1][3] | |||
1937 | The National Institute of Health moves to Bethesda, Maryland. Also, the National Cancer Institute is founded (by 1944 it would become part of the National Institute of Health.[3][1] | |||
1948 | The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are established the same year as institutes of the NIH.[4] | |||
1950 | The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4] | |||
1960 | The National Institutes of Health reaches ten components (institutes and centers).[1] | |||
1962 | The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) are established as institutes of the NIH.[4] | |||
1966 | The National Institute of Health budget surpasses one billion dolars.[1] | |||
1968 | The National Eye Institute (NEI) is established. It is incorporated as one of the Federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH).[4][5] | |||
1969 | The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4] | |||
1970 | The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is established as an institute of the NIH. It conducts research focused on improving the treatment and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems.[4] | |||
1970 | The National Institutes of Health reaches fifteen institutes and centers.[1] | |||
1974 | The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are established as institutes of the NIH. [4] | |||
1986 | The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4] | |||
1988 | The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4] | |||
1989 | The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4] | |||
2000 | The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4] | |||
2006 | The National Institutes of Health reaches twenty-seven institutes and centers.[1] |
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (Sarah Boslaugh ed.). Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ↑ "History". nih.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 History of Ophthalmology: Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis (Daniel M. Albert ed.). Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 "List of NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices". nih.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ↑ "National Institutes of Health: National Eye Institute - AFB Directory Profile". American Foundation for the Blind. Retrieved 20 March 2017.