National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports biomedical and behavioral research domestically and abroad, conducts research in its own laboratories and clinics, trains research scientists, and develops and…
- Civilian staff, August 2026
- 16,428
- −8.2% in a year
- Organizations that lobbied it
- 436
- 2019 to 2026
Where its power comes from
An agency can act only where a law lets it. These are the laws its rules cite, where its rules live, and the bills that would change it.
Bills that would change it
Bills this Congress that name it, the most recently moved first. A bill that names an agency is not a law.
- HRES 1079: Recognizing the significance of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and the need for robust funding of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and…In committee
- SRES 93: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the operations of the National Institutes of Health should not experience any interruption…In committee
Who runs it
Its leaders
- Jayanta BhattacharyaDirector of the National Institutes of Health
Who pays to be heard
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.$55.3M on reports naming it
- Biotechnology Innovation Organization$48.8M on reports naming it
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.$46.6M on reports naming it
- Jayanta BhattacharyaDirector of the National Institutes of Health
- Department of Health and Human ServicesThe department it sits in
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.Lobbied it, $55.3M
- Biotechnology Innovation OrganizationLobbied it, $48.8M
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.Lobbied it, $46.6M
- American Medical AssociationLobbied it, $38.6M
Its leaders
The people the Senate last confirmed to its offices, one record per office. A confirmation date is not proof someone still serves.
Who tries to sway it
Who names it on federal lobbying reports, 2019 to 2026, and who used to work there. Naming an agency is the filer’s account of where work was aimed, not a record of a meeting.
Who pays to be heard
The biggest spenders on reports that name it. A report names several issues, so each figure is the whole report.
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.$55.3M
- Biotechnology Innovation Organization$48.8M
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.$46.6M
- American Medical Association$38.6M
- AARP$34.6M
- Association of American Medical Colleges$27.2M
- Alkermes, Inc.$25.6M
- Alzheimer's Association$24.5M
- American College of Cardiology$15.8M
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.$15.1M
- Amazon.com Services LLC$14.9M
- Oracle Corporation$14.2M
- American Fed of Government Employees Afl-Cio$13.8M
- American Society of Anesthesiologists$9.22M
- American Dental Association$8.79M
- American Academy of Pediatrics$8.08M
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association$7.92M
- American Physical Therapy Association$7.88M
- General Electric Company (Including Subsidiaries)$7.34M
- Pfizer, Inc.$6.22M
Who files the lobbying
The firms on reports that name it, by how many clients they filed for.
- Health and Medicine Counsel, LLC21 clients
- Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.19 clients
- Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP14 clients
- Health and Medicine Counsel13 clients
- The Petrizzo Group, Inc.8 clients
- Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting8 clients
- G2G Consulting8 clients
- Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.7 clients
- Artemis Policy Group LLC6 clients
- Van Scoyoc Associates6 clients
- Ipolicy Solutions6 clients
- Alston & Bird LLP5 clients
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP5 clients
- Venable LLP5 clients
- Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.C.5 clients
- Madison Associates, LLC4 clients
- Bluebird Strategies4 clients
- Merchant Mcintyre & Associates, LLC4 clients
- Polsinelli PC4 clients
- Grassroots Political Consulting LLC4 clients
Former staff now lobbying
Lobbyists whose filings list a past job here.
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