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- USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of National Institutes of Health.
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“This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”
2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN
- abbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of not invented here.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
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NIH. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/NIH
“NIH.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/NIH. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “NIH,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/NIH.
Source: NIH on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.