​The Bethesda campus supports approximately 18,000 NIH employees, visiting research fellows, intramural research trainees, and contractor personnel who provide cafeteria, bank, and janitorial services. Key activities include laboratory research, clinical services and patient care, office and administrative work, animal care, procurement, grants management, general research services; and building operations, maintenance, construction, renovation, and demolition.

NIH currently occupies leased space in over 30 locations in the Bethesda and Rockville area of Montgomery County, Maryland. It also includes the NIH Animal Center in Poolesville, Maryland, as well as the 27 institutional centers (ICs) represented on the Bethesda campus.

For more information, contact Bani Bhattacharya, NEMS Program Manager.