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President
Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the new NIH campus in Bethesda
on October 31, 1940. This event was held to celebrate NIH's historic
move from one building in Washington, D.C. to its new campus setting
in Maryland on 45 acres of land donated by Luke and Helen Wilson.
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On
June 22, 1951, President Harry S Truman applied the first trowel
of mortar to the NIH Clinical Center cornerstone. To symbolize
advances in clinical medicine at the time, the cornerstone included
samples of therapeutic aids, drugs, and techniques and devices
to represent diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.
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President
Lyndon B. Johnson stepping off helicopter onto the lawn of the
NIH Clinical Center, August 9, 1965. He is being greeted by PHS
Surgeon General William H. Stewart, NIH Director Dr. James Shannon,
and Dr. Jack Masur, Clinical Center Director.
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President
Johnson with PHS Surgeon General William H. Stewart and NIH Director
Dr. James Shannon arrived at the NIH on August 9, 1965, to sign
into law an extension of the Research Facilities Construction Program.
In his remarks, President Johnson noted that "Here on this
quiet battleground our Nation today leads a worldwide war on disease."
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Dr. Theodore Cooper, President
Gerald Ford, and Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson listening to HEW Secretary
Casper Weinberger speak at the July 1, 1975, swearing in ceremonies
of Dr. Cooper as the HEW Assistant Secretary for Health, and Dr.
Fredrickson as Director of the NIH.
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President Gerald Ford speaking
at the July 1, 1975, ceremony swearing in Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson
as NIH Director. In his speech, President Ford says of the NIH "Through
your accomplishments, NIH has become a symbol of hope, not just
for the patients who are here in this or the other buildings, but
all people, everywhere."
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President
Gerald Ford observes Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson taking his oath
of office as Director of the National Institutes of Health on July
1, 1975. HEW Secretary Casper Weinberger administers the oath as
Mrs. Fredrickson holds the family Bible.
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President
Gerald Ford shakes hands with NIH staff, patients, and guests at
the Clinical Center. He was on hand to observe the swearing in
of Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson as the Director of the NIH, July 1,
1975.
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First
Lady Rosalyn Carter, and Mrs. James Callaghan, wife of the British
Prime Minister, are shown speaking with a patient in the Clinical
Center's Laminar Flow Room facilities. Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Callaghan
visited the Clinical Center on March 11, 1977.
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On March 11, 1977, First Lady
Rosalyn Carter, and Mrs. James Callaghan, wife of the British Prime
Minister, visited the NIH campus and met with NIH Director Dr.
Donald S. Fredrickson for a tour of the Clinical Center.
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On
July 23, 1987 President Ronald Reagan visited the NIH Clinical
Center to announce his 13-member Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Epidemic. HHS Secretary Otis R. Bowen and President Ronald
Reagan listen as NIH Director James B. Wyngaarden briefed the president
on the NIH's efforts in fighting AIDS.
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HHS
Secretary Otis R. Bowen and NIH Director James B. Wyngaarden greet
President Ronald Reagan during his July 23, 1987 visit to the NIH
Clinical Center. President Reagan visited the NIH to announce his
13-member Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic.
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President
Ronald Reagan, HHS Secretary Otis R. Bowen, Dr. James B. Wyngaarden
and members of the Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Epidemic. In his remarks, the president said, "I hope the
commission will help us all put aside our suspicions and work together
with common sense against this threat."
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President
Bill Clinton speaking with HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and NIH
Director Dr. Harold Varmus after the cornerstone dedication ceremony
for the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center on June
9, 1999.
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Mrs.
Betty Bumpers, President Bill Clinton, and Sen. Dale Bumpers during
the cornerstone dedication ceremony for the Dale and Betty Bumpers
Vaccine Research Center on June 9, 1999. In his speech, President
Clinton praised the Bumpers by saying "It is entirely fitting
that today we dedicate this state-of-the-art facility to them.
They are two great Americans."
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On
June 9, 1999, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala, President Bill Clinton,
Arkansas Sen. Dale Bumpers, and Mrs. Betty Bumpers unveil the cornerstone
to the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center. President
Clinton called the NIH "one of America's great citadels of
hope, not only for our people, but also for the world."
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President
George W. Bush tours the Vaccine Research Center on February 2,
2003. He is accompanied by (from left) NIAID Director Anthony Fauci,
NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, and
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge.
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President
George W. Bush delivers an address on Project BioShield to a full
audience at Natcher Auditorium during his visit to NIH on February
3, 2003.
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President
George W. Bush visits NIH on May 12, 2004 and participates in a
panel discussion about reading education and development. Touting
his No Child Left Behind legislation and its Reading First initiative,
President Bush talks with other panel members, including G. Reid
Lyon (l) of NICHD and Alabama kindergarten teacher Cynthia Henderson
(r).
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President
George W. Bush visited NIH on November 1, 2005 to announce the
government's pandemic influenza preparations and response. At a
Natcher Bldg. address of just under half an hour, he outlined a
$7.1 billion plan to meet the threat of avian flu. Bush credited
NIH for more than a century of work "at the forefront of this country's
efforts to prevent, detect and treat disease, and I appreciate
the good work you're doing here. This is an important facility,
an important complex, and the people who work here are really important
to the security of this nation."
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President
George W. Bush visits NIH on January 26, 2005 to hold a 40-minute
town hall meeting in Masur auditorium called strengthening health
care. Greeting him in the lobby of the Clinical Research Center
is: NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni joined by NCI director Dr.
Andrew von Eschenbach (l) and Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich,
Jr.
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On
January 17, 2007, President George W. Bush makes his fifth visit
to the NIH campus during his presidency. In his tour of a cancer
research laboratory and a roundtable discussion, the president
learned about the Cancer Genome Atlas project and other NIH-funded
research efforts.
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On Thursday, April 10, 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy
awarded NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni the Légion
d'honneur (French National Order of the Legion of Honor), the
highest decoration in France. In the United States, Generals
of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur, are among
the Americans who have received the honor. Others include General
Wesley Clark, Actor Kirk Douglas, Film Producer and Actor Clint
Eastwood, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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President Barack Obama (right) gets an update on NIH activities from NIH director Dr. Francis Collins (third from left). Also on hand are (from left) Bill Corr, deputy HHS secretary; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. John Holdren, the President's science advisor.
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From left, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and President Barack Obama tour the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center at NIH.
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Campus Photos
Building 1, the "Shannon
Building," serves as NIH headquarters in the heart of the
campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Building
10, the "Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center," has
served as the nation's clinical research hospital since 1953.
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The
Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center opened in 2005. The facility
houses inpatient units, day hospitals, and research labs and connects
to the original Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center. Together,
the Magnuson and Hatfield buildings form the NIH Clinical Center.
The Clinical Center provides patient care and the environment clinical
researchers need to advance clinical science. It was named in honor
of Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon, who supported medical research
throughout his congressional career.
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The
Children's Inn at NIH provides pediatric patients and their families
a place to stay during treatment at the Clinical Center.
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The
Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH is the temporary residence
for families and loved ones of adult patients receiving care at
the Clinical Center.
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Building
16, the "Lawton Chiles International House," is a locus
for international activities supported by NIH and the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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The
C.W. Bill Young Center (Building 33) is a new laboratory complex
constructed for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) to expand its research programs for developing
new and improved diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments for emerging
diseases caused by infectious agents that may occur naturally or
be deliberately released into civilian populations.
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Buildings
38 (and 38A—shown in the background) house the National Library
of Medicine, the world’s largest collection of medical literature,
and the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,
the research component of the NLM.
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Building
40, the "Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center," was
established to facilitate research in vaccine development.
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Building
45, the "William H. Natcher Building," is the gateway
to the NIH campus. It houses a 1,000-seat auditorium, nine conference
rooms, a spacious cafeteria, and underground parking for visitors.
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Building
50, "The Louis Stokes Laboratories," provides 250,000
GSF of state-of-the-art laboratory, office and conference facilities
for scientists from nine NIH Institutes.
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This
view of the NIH campus looks north past the Natcher Building (right)
to the Stokes Labs (center) and beyond to the Clinical Center (upper
left). Building 31, the "Claude D. Pepper Building," (upper
right) provides office space for most Institute directors and their
immediate staff.
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This
view of the NIH campus looks south beyond the Stokes
Labs and Natcher Building (center) to the reflective
façade of the National Library of Medicine (upper
right).
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Historical Photos of Scientists
The
NIH began in 1887 as a one-room Hygienic Laboratory in this Marine
Hospital on Staten Island, New York. The Hygienic Laboratory was
located here until 1891, when it was moved to Washington, D.C.
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This
is a photograph of a PHS research laboratory, circa 1899. The staff
is shown at workstations with microscopes and laboratory glassware.
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In
1910, U.S. Public Health Service workers prepared poisons to be
used for the extermination of plague-carrying rats.
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In
1910, researchers worked at a U.S. Public Health Service laboratory
equipped with a bunsen burner, microscope, and petri dishes.
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In
1916, Dr. Ida A. Bengston became the first woman on the professional
staff at the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Dr.
Bengston worked on ways of developing vaccines for spotted fever.
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In
1929, field laboratory technicians for the Rocky Mountain Laboratory
collected research specimens from the north side of Blodgett canyon,
Montana.
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A
1937 NIH laboratory technician surrounded by tools of the trade;
a rack of cotton-stoppered test tubes, a microscope and various
glass jars.
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In
1939, laboratory technicians performed tick research at a field
laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The laboratory was equipped with
a refrigerator, an autoclave, and a wood-burning stove.
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In
1946, researchers work at a field laboratory set up in the basement
of the Kew Gardens apartments in New York City.
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In
1953, NIH scientists were seeking the cause of the hypersensitivity
that develops during a 10-21 day lapse after infection before the
onset of rheumatic fever or nephritis.
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In
1954, NIH researchers were studying weight and blood changes in
rats with folic acid deficiency.
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In
1975, NIH’s central computer facility housed computers to
aid in the collection, analysis and display of data from laboratory
instruments, such as this mass spectrometer.
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Dr.
Martin Rodbell, former scientific director of NIEHS, won the 1994
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Photo courtesy of Andrew
M. Rodbell.
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Former
NIEHS Director Kenneth Olden (l) with senior members of the NIEHS
component of the team that identified the first breast cancer susceptibility
gene, BRCA1. Also pictured (left to right) are Dr. J. Carl Barrett,
Dr. Roger W. Wiseman, and Dr. Andrew Futreal. Photo by Steven R.
McCaw.
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