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Institutes, Agencies and Professional Societies


National Research Centers and Institutes

> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
> Department of Energy - National Laboratories
> Berkeley National Laboratory
> Human Genome Program
> Los Alamos (US) National Laboratory: Bioscience at Los Alamos
> Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
> DHHS Centers & Agencies on the Internet - arranged hierarchically
> Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
> Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
> Institute of Medicine
> Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
> National Academy of Sciences
> National Center for Biotechnology Information
> National Center for Genome Resources
> National Institutes of Health (NIH)
> Links to the 24 individual NIH Institutes and centers
> NIH - Office of Extramural Research
> National Library of Medicine (NLM)
> National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
> National Research Council
> National Science Foundation

International Research Centers and Institutes

> Canada: Medical Research Council of Canada
> Japan: National Cancer Center
> UK: Medical Research Council - UK
> World Health Organization (WHO)

Other Links to Institutes and Agencies

> MedWeb: National and International Institutes and Agencies
> Yahoo: Biology Institutes
> Yahoo: Medical Institutes
Note: the Yahoo sites contain a mix of government, private, and university research centers.

Professional Societies and Associations
More subject-specialized associations and societies can also be found on many of our health and biology subject guides.
> American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
> American College of Physicians (ACP)
> American Hospital Association (AHA)
> American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
> American Medical Association (AMA)
> American Nursing Association NursingWorld
> California Healthcare Association
> California Medical Association (CMA)
> Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
includes links to its dozen member societies
> San Diego County Medical Society

Other Links to Societies & Associations

> MedWeb: Societies and Associations

> Resources of Scholarly Societies: Biology
Links to approximately 200 societies in the biological sciences
> Resources of Scholarly Societies: Health Sciences
Links to over 300 societies in the health sciences

> Yahoo - Biology Organizations
> Yahoo - Health Administration Organizations
> Yahoo - Medical Organizations
> Yahoo - Nursing Organizations
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