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Biomedical Research


The National Institutes of Health campus covers 306 acres in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1930 the Ransdell Act changed the name of the Hygienic Laboratory to the National Institute of Health. With the creation of other research units, the name was changed again in 1948 to the National Institutes of Health. The move to this present location began in 1938.

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