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| | The '''National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)''' is part of the United States [[National Institutes of Health]], which in turn is part of the [[Department of Health and Human Services]]. NIDDK is approximately the fifth-largest of the 27 [[List of institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health|NIH institutes]].<ref name="niddk">{{cite web|title=About National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases|url=http://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/Pages/default.aspx|website=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|publisher=National Institutes of Health|access-date=15 March 2015}}</ref> |
| | name = National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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| | caption = National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Logo
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| | abbreviation = NIDDK
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| | formation = August 15, 1950
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| | type = U.S. Government Agency
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| | headquarters = [[Bethesda, Maryland]]
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| | language = [[English (language)|English]]
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| | leader_title = Director
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| | leader_name = [[Griffin P. Rodgers]]
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| | parent_agency = [[National Institutes of Health]]
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| The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases''' ('''NIDDK''') is part of the United States [[National Institutes of Health]], which in turn is part of the [[Department of Health and Human Services]]. NIDDK is approximately the fifth-largest of the 27 [[List of institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health|NIH institutes]].<ref name=niddk>{{cite web|title=About National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases|url=http://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/Pages/default.aspx|website=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|publisher=National Institutes of Health|access-date=15 March 2015}}</ref> The institute's mission is to support research, training, and communication with the public in the topic areas of "diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases".<ref name=almanac>{{cite web|title=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|url=http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/organization/NIDDK.htm|website=The NIH Almanac|publisher=National Institutes of Health|access-date=15 March 2015}}</ref> As of 2021, the Director of the institute is [[Griffin P. Rodgers]], who assumed the position on an acting basis in 2006 and on a permanent basis in 2007.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|title=Director's Biography|url=https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/meet-director|access-date=22 September 2021|website=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|publisher=National Institutes of Health}}</ref>
| | The institute's mission is to support research, training, and communication with the public in the topic areas of "diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases".<ref name="almanac">{{cite web|title=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|url=http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/organization/NIDDK.htm|website=The NIH Almanac|publisher=National Institutes of Health|access-date=15 March 2015}}</ref> |
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