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]
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]
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (Sarah Boslaugh ed.). Retrieved 20 March 2017. 
  2. "History". nih.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2017.