Medical posters drawn by artists at the National Institutes of Health help alert scientists to seminars on specialized subjects and attract public attention to medical topics of broad interest. Ideas for posters are most often gleaned from the human body itself. Many of the configurations found in science - a cell, muscle, or calcium channel - have great graphic appeal which the artist can often readily adapt into an eye-catching poster. The following medical posters represent a small fraction of the total number of posters designed over the past 30 years by artists in the NIH's Medical Arts and Photography Branch.

Please note: the posters in this exhibit are not available for purchase or for download in high-resolution format. You are welcome to print from the website: they are all in the public domain and thus available for use with no permission required. Unfortunately, the posters themselves are printed in very small quantities for specific events at NIH and, aside from one archival copy that is usually sent to the National Library of Medicine, none are saved.