NIH
Biomedical agency abbr.
NIH is the National Institutes of Health, the primary U.S. government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research.
Based in Bethesda, Maryland, NIH funds research grants and conducts studies on diseases, treatments, and health outcomes: The study was NIH-funded.
In business contexts, NIH also stands for "not invented here"—a dismissive attitude toward ideas or products developed externally: NIH syndrome killed the partnership. (Lowercase nih is an informal interjection.)
Maryland city near Washington
- intramuralWithin a single institution
- extramuralOutside institutional walls
- grantBestow or award money
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
director · campus · institute · budget · appropriations · oversight · administration · bureaucracy
Study of entire genetic sequences
- neuroscienceStudy of nervous systems
- oncologyCancer medicine specialty
- immunologyScience of bodily defenses
- epidemiologyStudy of disease spread
pharmacology · bioinformatics · biotechnology · aging · diabetes · cardiology · infectious · allergy
Facility for scientific investigation
- scientistOne who studies nature
- publicationIssued written material
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
experimentation · discovery · innovation · collaboration · investigation · postdoc · fellowship · ethics
Organism's total hereditary material
Denial of acceptance
- externalLocated on outside
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- insularityNarrow detachment from broader views
- parochialismExcessive local focus
Bethesda
Maryland city near Washington
- intramuralWithin a single institution
- extramuralOutside institutional walls
- grantBestow or award money
funding · director · campus · institute · budget · appropriations · oversight · administration · bureaucracy · federal
genomics
Study of entire genetic sequences
- neuroscienceStudy of nervous systems
- oncologyCancer medicine specialty
- immunologyScience of bodily defenses
epidemiology · pharmacology · bioinformatics · biotechnology · aging · diabetes · cardiology · infectious · allergy · pathology
laboratory
Facility for scientific investigation
- scientistOne who studies nature
- publicationIssued written material
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
methodology · experimentation · discovery · innovation · collaboration · investigation · postdoc · fellowship · ethics · reproducibility
genome
Organism's total hereditary material
rejection
Denial of acceptance
- externalLocated on outside
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- insularityNarrow detachment from broader views
- agenciesOgilvy, FDA, travel agency, employment agency, news agency
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- federal governmentexecutive branch, judicial branch, legislative branch, agencies, bureaus
- federal servicesSocial Security, Medicare, IRS, USPS, postal service
- federal agenciesFBI, CIA, EPA, IRS, CDC
- Government AcronymsCIA, FBI, EPA, IRS, DOJ
NIHCDC
U.S. public health agency
FDA · FEMA · clinical practice · public health response · CMS
NIHBig Pharma
Major medication corporations collectively
pharmaceutical companies · pharmaceutical industry · venture capital · Gates Foundation
NIHquackery
Fraudulent medical practice
pseudoscience · alternative medicine · naturopathy · homeopathy · folk medicine