Ransdell Act
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The Ransdell Act (ch. 251, Pub.L. 71-251, 46 Stat. 379, enacted May 26, 1930, codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. § 21, 42 U.S.C. § 22, 42 U.S.C. §§ 23a–23g), reorganized, expanded and redesignated the Laboratory of Hygiene (created in 1887)[1] as the National Institute of Health.
Congress appropriated $750,000 in the bill for construction of facilities and research fellowships.[2] The NIH grew into today's 27-unit National Institutes of Health).[3][4].
The Ransdell Act was sponsored by and named for Joseph E. Ransdell, a United States Senator for the state of Louisiana.
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- ^ "National Institutes of Health". ERAWATCH. http://cordis.europa.eu/erawatch/index.cfm?fuseaction=org.document&uuid=7D87D2CF-066D-B839-1A426D2DEEDDFF91. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ "Popular Names of Acts beginning with R". U.S. Code Collection. Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell Law School. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/topn/R.html. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ "Records of the National Institutes of Health". http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/443.html. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
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