Timeline of the National Institutes of Health

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Year/period Type of event Event Location
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
1901 The United States Congress authorizes a $35,000 budget for the laboratory.[1]
1930 The United States Congress renames the Hygienic Laboratory the National Institute (singular) of Health and authorizes the payout of fellowship money for basic research.[1]
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (Sarah Boslaugh ed.). Retrieved 20 March 2017. 
  2. "History". nih.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2017.