# National Institutes of Health

> National Institutes of Health is a VC fund backing Health Care. See 574 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, United States
- Total investments: 574
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 82%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/national-institutes-of-health
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/NIHforHealth
- Website: http://www.nih.gov
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nih.gov

National Institutes of Health is a biomedical research facility in the United States. It is affiliated with the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. It conducts its own scientific research through its IntramuralResearch Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program.National Institutes of Health has 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows in basic, translational, and clinical research. It comprises 27 separate institutes and centers that conduct research in different disciplines of biomedical science.With scientific accomplishments such as the discovery of fluoride to prevent tooth decay, the use of lithium to manage bipolar disorder, the creation of vaccines against hepatitis, Haemophilus influenzae (HIB), and human papillomavirus, National Institutes of Health has many agencies under its control.National Institutes of Health was established in 1887. It is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 239 | 42% |
| Biotechnology | 212 | 37% |
| Medical | 123 | 21% |
| Medical Device | 80 | 14% |
| Education | 51 | 9% |

134 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 418 | 73% |
| Seed | 7 | 1% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 1% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 0% |
| Series A | 1 | 0% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 412 | 72% |
| Israel | 3 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Spain | 2 | 0% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Fauci | 5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | 0 | — |
| James Gilman | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | — |
| Joseph Kinyoun | Founder | 0 | — |
| Kenneth R. Gersing | Director of Informatics | 0 | — |
| Marvin Wickens | Member of the Advisory Board | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Therapeutic Systems Research Laboratories | Therapeutic Systems Research Laboratories (TSRL), Inc. is a privately women-owned, pre-clinical accelerator based in Ann Arbor, Michigan focused on building companies that develop infectious disease therapeutics. A key aspect of our strategy is our Technology Accelerator, an ongoing collaborative process that lends our expertise and capabilities toentrepreneurs seeking to obtain the data and non-dilutive funding necessary to develop and/or commercialize their inventions. One focus is improving existing drug products by applying our versatile prodrug platform technologies to optimize therapy regimen for treating infectious diseases. Potential target indications include: influenza, HSV, VZV, CMV, EBV, poxvirus, HPV, Adenovirus, and RNA viruses. | $1.1M | Grant | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| University of Houston | Hundreds of academic choices, top-ranking graduate programs, world-renowned award-winning faculty and cutting edge research may all be found at the University of Houston (UH).Educating nearly 40,000 students annually, University of Houston offers more than 300 undergraduate and graduate programs on campus and online.Whether you’re interested inone of UH’s high-ranking programs in Electrical Engineering, Business, Fine Arts or Law, are an aspiring teacher, or anthropologist or wish to study literature, architecture, languages, law, social work or the pharmaceutical sciences, University of Houston offers it.With faculty who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony, the Noble Peace Prize and the National Medal of Science, instruction is at its exceptional best at University of Houston.Research is also of a superior quality. Housing 40 research centers, UH is a leading institution of research in the city of Houston. Since the school is located in a large and vibrant city, students also have the opportunity to undertake internships at nationally recognized companies and organizations.Student life is also alive and rich with opportunities, housing over 400 student organizations and 16 intercollegiate athletic teams.Student services are also abundant. In addition to academic, career and personal services, financial aid is offered through a variety of scholarships, loans, grants and departmental fellowships. | $18.8M | Grant | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Feinstein Institute for Medical Research | Feinstein Institute For Medical Research is the research arm of Northwell Health, the largest health care provider and private employer in New York State. Home to 50 research labs, 3,000 clinical research studies and 5,000 researchers and staff, the Feinstein Institutes raises the standard of medical innovation through its five institutes ofbehavioral science, bioelectronic medicine, cancer, health innovations and outcomes, and molecular medicine. We make breakthroughs in genetics, oncology, brain research, mental health, autoimmunity, and are the global scientific leader in bioelectronic medicine – a new field of science that has the potential to revolutionize medicine. | $4.9M | Grant | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| University of Oklahoma | University of Oklahoma is truly an extraordinary institution, known for its academic excellence and strong sense of community. Attracting top students from across the nation and more than 100 countries around the world, OU provides a major university experience in a private college atmosphere. OU is number one in the nation in the number ofNational Merit Scholars enrolled among public universities and is in the top ten of public universities in the nation in the graduation of Rhodes Scholars. The OU Honors College is one of the largest honors programs among public universities in the United States, matching the University’s best and brightest students with faculty in classrooms of 19 or fewer students. OU is one of the few public universities in the nation to cap the class size of first-year English composition courses at no more than 19. OU offers students the opportunity to study abroad in over 100 cities and 50 countries, including our signature program in Arezzo, Italy. The number of endowed faculty professorships and chaired positions has increased from less than 100 15 years ago to more than 560 today. This enables OU to keep and attract faculty researchers of national and international stature. For four of the last six years the OU Debate team has won the National Debate Championship. Other students from across campus have worked in teams to also win top awards in the National Petroleum Engineering Competition, the National Kennedy Center Competition in Drama, and the entrepreneurship program consistently ranks in the top five nationally.OU has emerged as a pacesetter for public higher education in the United States and is ranked by The Princeton Review among the top 10 public universities in the nation in terms of academic excellence and cost for students. OU has more than doubled the amount of private scholarships in five years and raised its scholarship goal to $250 million. In addition, OU’s private endowment has increased more than five-fold since 1994, growing from $204 million to more than $1.8 billion. There is a true sense of family on the OU campus. Serving as a model for other public universities, OU established the Faculty-In-Residence program which places faculty members and their families in each of our residence halls to foster faculty and student interaction and encourage intergenerational friendships. Further, a different professor adopts each floor of the residence halls as well as each fraternity and sorority, allowing students and faculty to build relationships outside of the classroom. OU’s Fred Jones Museum of Art ranks in the top 5 university art museums in the United States. It received the Weitzenhoffer Collection, the largest gift of French Impressionist art ever given to a public university in the US. The Sam Noble Museum of Natural History is the largest university based museum of its kind in the world. OU’s Bizzell Memorial Library features one of the three largest history of science collections in the world, and is the only place in the United States where you can hold a book with Galileo's handwriting in your own hands. | $11.5M | Grant | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), which has been ranked among the top universities in the world, offers exceptional undergraduate and graduate academics.UAB has over 130 different areas of study from which to choose. These encompass bachelor's master's, doctoral and professional degrees in the arts, sciences, business,education, engineering and public health, among others.UAB's medical school, which features one of the largest university medical centers in the country, has been especially praised for its excellence.UAB's students are also a testament to the quality of a UAB education, with numerous Fullbright, Rhodes, Marshall, Truman and other scholars among its graduates.Student life at UAB is multifaceted and includes over 150 student organizations, vibrant Greek life, a top-ranking recreation and fitness center and year-round intramural sports. The majority of students live in residence halls.For those who need partial or full assistance covering tuition, financial aid is available to eligible students as are departmental fellowships for graduate students. | $2.9M | Grant | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Quiver Bioscience | Quiver Bioscience is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics for central nervous system disorders by combining human disease models with advanced computational approaches. Its platform integrates patient-derived stem cell models, high-throughput optogenetic and electrophysiological measurements, and artificial intelligence toanalyze neuronal function and identify disease-relevant phenotypes. The company uses these data-driven methods to discover and validate therapeutic targets, as well as to design and optimize candidate molecules for neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions. It maintains a pipeline that includes programs for chronic pain, seizure disorders, and genetic neurological diseases, progressing candidates from early discovery through preclinical and clinical stages. The organization also collaborates with external partners and applies its platform to improve prediction of drug efficacy and safety in the development of treatments for brain-related diseases. | $9.3M | Grant | May 04, 2026 |  |
| NYU Langone Health | NYU Langone Health is a nonprofit organization that provides a center of excellence in healthcare, research, and medical education. | $70M | Grant | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Feinstein Institute for Medical Research | Feinstein Institute For Medical Research is the research arm of Northwell Health, the largest health care provider and private employer in New York State. Home to 50 research labs, 3,000 clinical research studies and 5,000 researchers and staff, the Feinstein Institutes raises the standard of medical innovation through its five institutes ofbehavioral science, bioelectronic medicine, cancer, health innovations and outcomes, and molecular medicine. We make breakthroughs in genetics, oncology, brain research, mental health, autoimmunity, and are the global scientific leader in bioelectronic medicine – a new field of science that has the potential to revolutionize medicine. | $500K | Grant | Apr 02, 2026 |  |
| NYU Langone Health | NYU Langone Health is a nonprofit organization that provides a center of excellence in healthcare, research, and medical education. |  | Grant | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Sage Bionetworks | At Sage Bionetworks they believe that this advance will be best harnessed when individuals and groups can collaborate openly on discoveries, with a fundamental shift in the traditional roles and rewards for individuals and organizations involved. They work to redefine how complex biological data is gathered, shared and used, redefining it throughopen systems, incentives, and norms. They challenge the traditional roles of individuals and groups, patients and researchers. |  | Grant | Mar 18, 2026 |  |

10 of 574 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- Small Business Innovation Research — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- National Cancer Institute — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- National Science Foundation — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- National Institute on Aging — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does National Institutes of Health invest in?

National Institutes of Health invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 574 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact National Institutes of Health?

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### Who are the partners at National Institutes of Health?

The team at National Institutes of Health includes Anthony Fauci (5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), James Gilman (Chief Executive Officer) and Joseph Kinyoun (Founder), among 17 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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