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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, and is the only primary division of the NIH located outside of the Washington metropolitan area.2 It is part of United States National Institutes of Health.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, and is the only primary division of the NIH located outside of the Washington metropolitan area.2
In 1966, U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart helped to create a Division of Environmental Health Sciences within the NIH. Three years later, the division became its own institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Past directors include Paul Kotin, David Rall, Kenneth Olden, David A. Schwartz, and Linda Birnbaum.
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