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The United States National Science Foundation is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science
U.S. National Science Foundation staff on the occasion of the agency's 75th anniversary
RCA Robes
Neal lane
Rita R. Colwell
The National Institutes of Health is the primary agency of the United States federal government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United
National Science Foundation
…government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about $8.75 billion (fiscal year 2026), the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted…
Aerial photo of the NIH Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland
Ida A. Bengtson, a bacteriologist who in 1916 was the first woman hired to work in the Hygienic Laboratory
NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1945
Clinical Research Center at the NIH