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NIH

NIH

48 3.8
A U.S. government agency that funds medical and health research
  • proper noun
  • /ɛn aɪ eɪtʃ/
translation icon : Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (EE. UU.)
  • I'm Maureen Gundal from the NIH Office of AIDS Research.
  • an NIH grant
  • NIH funding
  • NIH research

Boyer comes out of that NIH funded system.

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Examples

  • And we've been very fortunate to get many grants from the NIH here to study this.

  • NIH program staff members examine application priority scores and consider these against the IC's needs.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And I I guess my question is like, is the NIH funding a lot of this sort of thing?

  • There are problems at NIH, and we should solve them.

  • I suspect all of you know more about NIH than I do.

  • We have another clip from patients and the NIH staff about why this matters.

  • I'd like you to come to Washington to be treated at NIH.

  • The applicants are investigators who are funded by NIH or other research organizations.

    Academic text (1991)
  • To the contrary, NIH should be applauded for its efforts toward transparency in making information on funding readily available.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The NIH conducts extensive research on various health issues to improve public health.

Synonyms

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A United States government agency that funds and runs medical research

is the shorter commonly used abbreviated form in writing and speech

Surface Forms

NIH main

Morphology

NIH = National Institutes of Health (semi-transparent) = N + I + H

The initialism directly represents the expanded name; knowing the expansion gives the meaning. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]

Etymology

NIH is an initialism for the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency that funds and carries out medical and public health research. So when you see NIH, think of the national body for 'health' research.