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Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the Â鶹Éç (NIH) today is one of the world’s foremost medical research centers. An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. Read more »

NIH Office of the Director

The Office of the Director (OD) is responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all 27 of NIH's Institutes and Centers. The OD program offices include the , , , The and , among others.

NIH Institutes

• Â鶹Éç Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Â鶹Éç Eye Institute (NEI)
• Â鶹Éç Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• Â鶹Éç Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• Â鶹Éç Institute on Aging (NIA)
• Â鶹Éç Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver Â鶹Éç Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• Â鶹Éç Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• Â鶹Éç Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Â鶹Éç Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• Â鶹Éç Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• Â鶹Éç Library of Medicine (NLM)

NIH Centers

• Center for Information Technology (CIT)
• Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
• Fogarty International Center (FIC)
• Â鶹Éç Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
• Â鶹Éç Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
• NIH Clinical Center (CC)