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All NIH Institutes and Centers are involved with OSC in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Common Fund programs. [15] commonfund.nih.gov: Office of Technology Transfer: OTT manages the wide range of NIH and FDA intramural inventions as mandated by the Federal Technology Transfer Act and related legislation.
NIH deputy director [10] [11] 13 Bernadine Healy: April 8, 1991 - June 30, 1993 George H.W. Bush – Ruth L. Kirschstein: July 1, 1993 - November 22, 1993 Donna Shalala: NIH deputy director 14 Harold E. Varmus: November 23, 1993 - December 31, 1999 Bill Clinton – Ruth L. Kirschstein: January 1, 2000 - May 2, 2002 Donna Shalala: NIH deputy ...
September 1993—The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-43) directed NIAMS to establish "an information clearinghouse on osteoporosis and related bone disorders to facilitate and enhance knowledge and understanding on the part of health professionals, patients, and the public through the effective dissemination of information."
As of 2011, NIH-supported research helped to discover 153 new FDA-approved drugs, vaccines, and new indications for drugs in the 40 years prior. [35] One study found NIH funding aided either directly or indirectly in developing the drugs or drug targets for all of the 210 FDA-approved drugs from 2010 to 2016. [36]
In 1998, Anderson was elected president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, [10] becoming the first African-American to hold the position. [1] [11] He was the founding associate director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he was in charge of social and behavioral science, and was the first director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). [1]
The NIH director subsequently established the National Commission on Digestive Diseases under NIDDK leadership in August 2005. December 29, 2007—The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (P.L. 110–173) extended funding for the Special Statutory Funding Program for Type 1 Diabetes Research. The law provided $150 million for ...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Alma Levant Hayden (March 30, 1927 – August 2, 1967) was an American chemist , and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s.
The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, or NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), is a tool used by healthcare providers to objectively quantify the impairment caused by a stroke and aid planning post-acute care disposition, though was intended to assess differences in interventions in clinical trials. The NIHSS was designed for the National ...