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 | ARPA-H is requesting $2.5 billion in funding for the fiscal year. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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. |
| 2018 | NIH annual budget reached $37.3 billion. |
| 2017 | Congress passed bipartisan laws substantially increasing NIH appropriations. |
| 2017 | NIH budget continued to grow to $34,300.9 million |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 2014 | NIH announced a policy requiring scientists to perform experiments using both female and male animals or cells, and to balance study designs when considering grant awards. This policy aimed to address gender and sex bias in scientific research, with exceptions for sex-specific diseases. |
| 2014 | End of a period when 27,000-29,000 R01 grant applications were submitted, with a funding success rate of 17-19%. |
| 2012 | The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General continued publishing audit reports exposing NIH's non-compliance with appropriations statutes in federal contract awards, which committed the government to millions of dollars in expenditures without prior Congressional appropriation. |
| 2012 | NIH expanded to comprise 27 separate institutes and centers covering different biomedical disciplines. |
| 2012 | Beginning of a period when 27,000-29,000 R01 grant applications were submitted, with a funding success rate of 17-19%. |
| September 2012 | The NIH Toolbox was officially released and rolled out to the research community, providing state-of-the-art measurement tools based on Item Response Theory and computer-adapted testing. |
| February 13 2012 | NIH announced the formation of the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee, a collaborative group of researchers aimed at coordinating pain research activities across the federal government and enhancing public involvement in pain research. |
| 2011 | Start of a period when nearly 90,000 investigators applied for NIH research grants. |
| 2011 | The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General began publishing audit reports revealing compliance issues with NIH contract awards to commercial partners during fiscal years 2000-2010. |
| December 23 2011 | National Center for Research Resources was officially discontinued after nearly 50 years of operation. |
| 2010 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget was $31,238.0 million |
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