Institutes
| Name | Acronym | Description | Est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Cancer Institute | NCI | Research and training aimed to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer. | 1937 |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | NIAID | Research goals include striving to understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. The NIAID-funded Influenza Genome Sequencing Project is a collaborative effort designed to increase the genome knowledge base of influenza and help researchers understand how flu viruses evolve, spread and cause disease. | 1948 |
| National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | NIDCR | Provides leadership for a national research program designed to understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious and inherited craniofacial-oral-dental diseases and disorders. | 1948 |
| National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | NIDDK | Conducts and supports research and provides leadership for a national program in diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases, digestive diseases and nutrition, and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases. | 1948 |
| National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | NHLBI | Provides leadership for a national program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources; and sleep disorders. Also has administrative responsibility for the NIH Women's Health Initiative. | 1948 |
| National Institute of Mental Health | NIMH | Understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental illnesses through basic research on the brain and behavior, and through clinical, epidemiological, and services research. | 1949 |
| National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | NINDS | Supports and conducts research, both basic and clinical, on the normal and diseased nervous system, fosters the training of investigators in the basic and clinical neurosciences, and seeks better understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurological disorders. | 1950 |
| National Library of Medicine | NLM | NLM collects, organizes, and makes available biomedical science information to investigators, educators, and practitioners and carries out programs designed to strengthen medical library services in the United States. The NLM established the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which is a central repository of biological information and includes the PubMed literature database and the gene database GenBank. The NCBI is one of the largest components of the NLM. | 1956 |
| National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | NICHD | NICHD researchs fertility, pregnancy, growth, development, and medical rehabilitation for the promotion of all aspects of child health. | 1962 |
| National Institute of General Medical Sciences | NIGMS | NIGMS supports basic biomedical research not targeted to specific diseases, funds studies on genes, proteins, and cells, supports research training programs that produce the next generation of biomedical scientists, has special programs to encourage underrepresented minorities to pursue biomedical research careers. | 1962 |
| National Eye Institute | NEI | Conducts and supports research that helps prevent and treat eye diseases and other disorders of vision. | 1968 |
| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | NIEHS | Research on how environmental exposures, genetic susceptibility, and age interact to affect an individual's health. | 1969 |
| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | NIAAA | NIAAA research is focused on improving the treatment and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. | 1970 |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse | NIDA | NIDA supports and conducts research on drug abuse and addiction prevention, treatment, and policy. | 1973 |
| National Institute on Aging | NIA | Undertakes research on the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process, prevention of age-related diseases and disabilities, promotion of better quality of life for all older Americans. | 1974 |
| National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases | NIAMS | NIAMS supports research into causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases, the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research, and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases. | 1986 |
| National Institute of Nursing Research | NINR | NINR supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span. | 1986 |
| National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders | NIDCD | Conducts and supports biomedical research and research training on normal mechanisms as well as diseases and disorders of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. | 1988 |
| National Human Genome Research Institute | NHGRI | Supports the NIH component of the Human Genome Project. NHGRI's Intramural Research Program develops and implements technology for understanding, diagnosing, and treating genetic diseases. | 1989 |
| National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering | NIBIB | Promotes fundamental discoveries, design and development, and translation and assessment of technological capabilities in biomedical imaging and bioengineering, enabled by relevant areas of information science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, materials science, and computer sciences. | 2000 |
| National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | NIMHD | Promotes minority health, conducts and supports research, training, research infrastructure, fosters emerging programs, disseminates information, and reaches out to minority and other health disparity communities. | 2010 |
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