Timeline of the National Institutes of Health

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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) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4]
1960 The National Institutes of Health reaches ten components (institutes and centers).[1]
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]
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) is established as an institute of the NIH. Its research program encompasses biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process.[4]
1989 The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is established as an institute of the NIH.[4]
2006 The National Institutes of Health reaches twenty-seven institutes and centers.[1]
  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. 
  2. "History". nih.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2017. 
  3. 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. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "List of NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices". nih.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2017. 
  5. "National Institutes of Health: National Eye Institute - AFB Directory Profile". American Foundation for the Blind. Retrieved 20 March 2017.