Establishment and History of The Institute
On August 15th, 1950, President Harry S. Truman signed the Omnibus Medical Research Act into law, establishing the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, the forerunner to the NIDDK. In the ensuing years, the Institute was renamed several times. In 1986, one of the Institute's former Divisions became the core of a new, separate NIH component focused on arthritis and other diseases, and the Institute acquired its current name: the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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