National Institutes of Health
US government medical research agency
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| January 22 2025 | The Trump administration imposed an immediate freeze on NIH meetings, travel, communications, and hiring, impacting $47.4 billion worth of activities. |
| 2024 | Richard J. Hodes, M.D. serves as the Director of NIA, with Amy S. Kelley, M.D. appointed as the Deputy Director. |
| 2024 | ARPA-H is requesting $2.5 billion in funding for the fiscal year. |
| 2023 | William London, writing for Quackwatch, criticized NCCIH for misleading consumers and promoting complementary health practices, which he considered potentially equivalent to quackery. |
| 2023 | ARPA-H received $1.5 billion in appropriations. |
| 2023 | NIH budget reached $47,683.5 million, the highest point in the provided data range |
| December 18 2023 | Kimryn Rathmell becomes the seventeenth NCI Director. |
| 2022 | ARPA-H received $1 billion in initial appropriations. |
| 2022 | USPSTF again evaluated HRT and maintained their 'D' score recommendation against using hormone replacement therapy for chronic disease prevention in postmenopausal women. |
| 2022 | USPSTF again evaluated and maintained the 'D' score recommendation against hormone replacement therapy for chronic postmenopausal symptoms. |
| 2022 | ARPA-H was created by Congress in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, receiving $1 billion in initial appropriations. |
| 2022 | NIH budget rose to $45,183.0 million |
| October 17 2022 | Monica Bertagnolli becomes the sixteenth NCI Director and the first woman to hold the position. |
| May 24 2022 | Secretary Xavier Becerra delegated the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
| 2021 | NIH budget further increased to $42,940.5 million, continuing pandemic-related funding support |
| 2021 | NIH contributed $4,395,399 to the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) program to support COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research. |
| 2020 | The National Cancer Institute had an annual budget of $6.9 billion, being the largest and oldest of the 27 institutes and centers of the NIH. |
| 2020 | The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) received $650.6 million in NIH funding for the fiscal year, supporting its research and translational model initiatives. |
| 2020 | NIH budget increased to $41,690.0 million, likely influenced by COVID-19 pandemic research needs |
| 2020 | Beth Darnall, an American scientist and pain psychologist, was appointed as a scientific member of the NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee. |
| July 2020 | NIH withdrew funding to EcoHealth Alliance following political pressure and controversies surrounding its collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 28 2020 | Most recent study update published in JAMA, reporting persistent increased breast cancer risk among women randomized to estrogen plus progestin compared with placebo, with a hazard ratio of 1.28. |
| July 28 2020 | JAMA publication reporting persistent increased breast cancer risk for women randomized to estrogen plus progestin compared to placebo, with a hazard ratio of 1.28 and statistically significant p-value. |
| July 27 2020 | NIH partnered with Moderna to begin the final phase of COVID-19 vaccine testing, involving 30,000 volunteers split into two groups receiving either the mRNA-1273 vaccine or salt water injections. |
| 2019 | The Center for Inquiry conducted an analysis concluding that NCCIH continues to fund questionable science and recommended against reforming the current organization. |
| 2019 | NIH budget maintained steady increase to $39,311.3 million |
| 2019 | NIH was ranked second globally for biomedical sciences in the Nature Index, behind Harvard University, based on contributions to papers published between 2015-2018. |
| 2019 | National Institutes of Health devoted 10% of its funding to intramural research and over 80% of research grants to extramural researchers, with 2.8% of extramural funding allocated to small businesses under the SBIR/STTR program. |
| November 2019 | Norman Sharpless returned to NCI as director. |
| April 2019 | Norman Sharpless left NCI to serve as acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs. |
| 2018 | NIH annual budget reached $37.3 billion. |
| November 26 2018 | Helene Langevin assumes the role of director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. |
| August 29 2018 | NCCIH announced Helene Langevin as the new director, who was previously the director of the Osher Center and professor-in-residence of medicine at Harvard Medical School. |
| 2017 | The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) published a recommendation discouraging hormone replacement therapy for preventing chronic diseases in postmenopausal women, downgrading their previous recommendation from a 'B' to a 'D' grade. |
| 2017 | Published a cumulative 18-year follow-up analysis of 27,347 postmenopausal women, examining the long-term impacts of hormone therapy trials, finding no significant association with all-cause, cardiovascular, or total cancer mortality. |
| 2017 | Congress passed bipartisan laws substantially increasing NIH appropriations. |
| 2017 | NIH budget continued to grow to $34,300.9 million |
| October 2017 | Josephine Briggs retired from her position as director of NCCIH. |
| October 17 2017 | Norman Sharpless was sworn in as the 15th director of the National Cancer Institute. |
| 2016 | 21st Century Cures Act increased funding for biomedical research; 'Cancer Moonshot' program promised additional cancer research support. |
| 2016 | Eliezer Masliah was appointed as the head of the National Institute on Aging's Division of Neuroscience, marking a significant leadership change in the organization's neuroscience research efforts. |
| 2016 | NIH budget increased to $32,311.4 million, showing recovery from previous year |
| 2016 | NIH received a total of 54,220 grant applications, with approximately 19% being awarded funding. |
| April 2016 | Received the 2016 Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), honoring over 20 years of work that 'singularly changed the face of women's medicine around the world'. |
| 2015 | Launched the Women's Health Initiative Strong and Healthy Study (WHISH), a four-year research project examining the impact of physical activity on older women's health outcomes, including heart disease and independent lifestyle maintenance. The study enrolled nearly 50,000 participants with varied physical activity interventions monitored through mail and phone using an interactive voice response (IVR) system. |
| 2015 | The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study was awarded the Team Science Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS), recognizing the team's success in translating research discoveries into clinical applications and widespread clinical practice. |
| 2015 | WHI initiates Extension Study 3, with preliminary estimates showing 81,386 active participants (36,115 from Clinical Trials and 45,271 from Observational Study), representing 87% of those enrolled in Extension Study 2. |
| 2015 | Pierre Azoulay and colleagues estimated that $10 million invested in NIH research generated two to three new patents. |
| 2015 | End of a period tracking investigator grant applications, with nearly 90,000 investigators having applied. |
| 2015 | NIH budget decreased to $30,311.4 million, the lowest point in the provided data range |
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