| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICRF | Imperial Cancer Research Fund |
| JGI | Joint Genome Institute |
| IBF | International Business Forum |
| NICHD | National Institute Of Child Health And Human Development |
| AAI | American Association Of Immunologists |
| NCI | Natl. Cancer Institute |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |