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| shorttitle             = Ransdell Act
| longtitle              = An Act to establish and operate a National Institute of Health, to create a system of fellowships in said institute, and to authorize the Government to accept donations for use in ascertaining the cause, prevention, and cure of disease affecting human beings, and for other purposes.
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| enacted by             = 71st
| effective date         = May 26, 1930
| public law url         = http://history.nih.gov/research/downloads/PL71-251.pdf
| cite public law        = 71-251
| cite statutes at large = {{usstat|46|379}}, Chapter 320
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| acts repealed          = 42 USC § 17-25e, July 1, 1944
| title amended          = [[Title 42 of the United States Code|42: Public Health and Social Welfare]]
| sections created       = Chapter 1 § 23a
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| introducedin           = Senate
| introducedbill         = {{USbill|71|S.|1171}}
| introducedby           = [[Joseph E. Ransdell]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]–[[Louisiana|LA]])
| introduceddate         = April 21, 1930
| committees             = [[United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce|Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce]]
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| signedpresident        = [[Herbert Hoover]]
| signeddate             = May 26, 1930
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The '''Ransdell Act''' (ch. 251, {{USStatute|71|251|46|379|1930|05|26}}, codified as amended at {{usc|42|21}}, {{usc|42|22}}, {{usc|42|23a|23g}}), reorganized, expanded and redesignated the ''Laboratory of Hygiene'' (created in 1887)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/nih_origins/laboratory.html |title=Birth of the Hygienic Laboratory |date=May 8, 1987 |series=Origins of the National Institutes of Health |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine}}</ref> as the National Institute of Health.<ref name=TS>{{cite web|last=Luiggi|first=Cristina|title=One-Man NIH, 1887|url=http://the-scientist.com/2011/05/28/one-man-nih-1887/|date=May 28, 2011|publisher=The Scientist|accessdate=21 June 2011}}</ref>

Congress appropriated $750,000 in the bill for construction of facilities and research fellowships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/erawatch/index.cfm?fuseaction=org.document&uuid=7D87D2CF-066D-B839-1A426D2DEEDDFF91 |title=National Institutes of Health |publisher=ERAWATCH |accessdate=2008-01-17}}</ref> The NIH grew into today's 27-unit [[National Institutes of Health]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/topn/R.html |title=Popular Names of Acts beginning with R |work=U.S. Code Collection |publisher=Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell Law School |accessdate=2008-01-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/443.html |title=Records of the National Institutes of Health |accessdate=2008-01-17}}</ref>
{{stack|[[Image:Marine Hospital Service Stapleton Staten Island 19thcentury.gif|thumb|left|Marine Hospital on [[Staten Island]] - home of the ''Laboratory of Hygiene'' from 1887-91. Today the building is part of [[Bayley Seton Hospital]] ]]}}
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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