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 | |||
1901 | The United States Congress authorizes a $35,000 budget for the laboratory.[1] | ||
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 United States Congress renames the Hygienic Laboratory the National Institute (singular) of Health and authorizes the payout of fellowship money for basic research.[1] | ||
1937 | The National Cancer Institute is founded. From then on, the Congress would begin a several-decade process of opening new institutes at the National Institute of Health to deal with specific diseases.[1] |