Reinvent the intramural program as a model career incubator In 1940, NIH’s new campus in Bethesda, MD included onsite research laboratories, but beginning in 1944, with authorization of NIH grants to universities and medical schools, the extramural research program became the primary focus of NIH, with 83% of the NIH budget now designated for extramural research. The intramural research program (IRP), however, has also grown and prospered. It is now the world’s largest biomedical research institution, with more than 1,200 principal investigators and 4,000 postdoctoral fellows and a budget representing ~11% of the total NIH appropriation.
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