Ransdell Act
The Ransdell Act, reorganized, expanded and redesignated the Laboratory of Hygiene as the National Institute of Health.
Congress appropriated $750,000 in the bill for construction of facilities and research fellowships. The NIH grew into today's 27-unit National [Institutes of Health]).
The Ransdell Act was sponsored by and named for Joseph E. Ransdell, a United States senator for the state of Louisiana.