Happy birthday, NIH! One of the most important events in NIH history happened on May 26, 1930: the Ransdell Act was signed, creating the National Institute of Health. #NIH was singular then, springing out of the Hygienic Laboratory of the Public Health Service. Louisiana Senator Joseph E. Ransdell, pictured here, worked tirelessly to get the bill passed. This legislation marked a change in the attitude of the U.S. scientific community toward public funding of medical research. You can become an expert on Ransdell by reading “Inventing the NIH” by Dr. Victoria Harden https://archive.org/details/inventingnihfede00hard/page/n5 #NIH @NIH @IRPatNIH
