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The '''National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases''' ('''NIAID''') is part of the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), which is one of 11 operating divisions that are part of the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]. NIAID conducts basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. The institute also works closely with partners in academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations in multifaceted and multidisciplinary efforts to address emerging health challenges to the U.S. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., has acted as the director of NIAID since 1984.<ref name="DirAbout">{{cite web |url=http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/Pages/default.aspx |title=About the Director |publisher=National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |date=20 July 2015 |accessdate=03 November 2015}}</ref>

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has large intramural laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland and in Montana, and it funds research conducted by scientists at institutions in the United States and throughout the world.

==History==
In 1887, officials of the Marine Hospital Service on Staten Island, New York (now the Bayley Seton Hospital) decided to open a research laboratory to study the link between microscopic organisms and infectious diseases. Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun, a medical officer with the Marine Hospital Service, was selected to create this laboratory, which he called a "laboratory of hygiene."

<ref name="NIAIDHistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ABOUT/WHOWEARE/HISTORY/Pages/default.aspx |title=History of NIAID |publisher=National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |date=17 February 2012 |accessdate=03 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="LuiggiOne">{{cite web |url=http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/30555/title/One-Man-NIH--1887/ |title=One-Man NIH, 1887 |author=Luiggi, Cristina |work=The Scientist |publisher=LabX Media Group |date=04 June 2011 |accessdate=03 November 2015}}</ref> Kinyoun's lab was renamed the Hygienic Laboratory in 1891 and moved to Washington, D.C., where Congress authorized it to investigate "infectious and contagious diseases and matters pertaining to the public health."<ref name="MintzerNIH">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3L35dyiAFAC |title=The National Institutes of Health |author=Mintzer, Richard |publisher=Chelsea House Pub |year=2002 |pages=64 |isbn=9780791067932 |accessdate=03 November 2015}}</ref>

On May 26, 1930, the Hygienic Laboratory was re-designated as the National Institute of Health by the Ransdell Act and was given $750,000 to construct two NIH buildings. Over the next few decades, Congress would increase its funding tremendously to the NIH, and various institutes and centers within the NIH were created for specific research programs. In 1948, with the creation of four new institutes, the NIH became the "National Institutes of Health." Among these was the National Microbiology Institute, formed from the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Biologics Control Laboratory, and the NIH Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Diseases.<ref name="NIHAlmChron">{{cite web |url=http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/historical/chronology_of_events.htm |title=Chronology of Events |work=The NIH Almanac |publisher=National Institutes of Health |accessdate=03 November 2015}}</ref> In 1955, Congress changed the name of the National Microbiological Institute to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to reflect the inclusion of allergy and immunology research. That change became effective on December 29, 1955.<ref name="NatArchNIAID" />

==Technology and products==

===LabShare===
LabShare is a collaborative [[electronic laboratory notebook|ELN]]-like platform for [[translational research]]. The software "provides a multifaceted communication and collaboration hub for your facility, allowing you to create rich content and manage digital assets."<ref name="LSHome">{{cite web |url=http://wp.labshare.org/ |title=LabShare |publisher=National Institutes of Health |accessdate=03 November 2015}}</ref> LabShare was originally built for and designed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Research Technology Branch. The software was later made available to other NIH-related labs and later still to "[a]ny research facility that needs the ability to easily manage its instruments, projects, experiments, samples, reagents and their research data."<ref name="LSHome" /> The software seems to be at least partially developed through an independent company called Axle Informatics, LLC.<ref name="AxleLS">{{cite web |url=http://axleinfo.com/go-green/ |title=Go Green, Streamline and Reduce Costs |publisher=Axle Informatics, LLC |accessdate=03 November 2015}}</ref>

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====Pricing====
Though LabShare is available to research facilities outside the NIH, it's not clear at what cost. The NIH does state, however, that it's available at no cost to any NIH intramural research facility.<ref name="LSHome" />

====Demonstration videos and other media====


====Additional information====

==Further reading==

* [http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/443.html#443.7 NIAID at the National Archives]

==References==
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