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 Japanese
National Institute of Health (JNIH)
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| In 1948 (about a year after US President
Harry S. Truman authorized the US National Academy of Sciences-National
Research Council to organize
the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission [ABCC]), the JNIH joined the research program and established branch laboratories
within ABCC in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This cooperative program continued
until April 1975, when the binational Radiation Effects Research Foundation
was established with funding from the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare
(currently, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) and the US
Department of Energy through the US National Academy of Sciences.
The JNIH was renamed the National Institute of Infectious Diseases [NIID] in
1997. |
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