an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
"The NIH funded a groundbreaking study on gene therapy to treat rare genetic disorders."
Initialism of not invented here.
"The team decided to adopt an open-source library instead of building their own solution, avoiding the common trap of saying no to external tools due to Nih syndrome."
In plain English: Nih means nothing at all, used to say something is worthless or doesn't matter.
"The company's financial status was nih, leaving them unable to pay any employees."
Initialism of National Institutes of Health.
"The grant was awarded by NIH to support groundbreaking research in neurology."