NIH Bethesda
Housing, moving sales, and community for visiting fellows, postbacs, postdocs and visiting scientists around the NIH Bethesda campus. Start here with the fact that decides most plans: NIH's own training office states, in those words, that NIH does not provide housing for fellows — and FAES, the NIH-adjacent option that page points to, publishes eligibility limited to people enrolled in an NIH stipend-paid fellowship or scholarship programme who hold an NIH badge, with federal employees, contractors and special volunteers stated to be ineligible, and a waitlist besides. If that is not you, the Bethesda private market is the answer, and this hub is about making that survivable. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by NIH, HHS, or FAES.
Nearby areas
Getting around
The NIH Clinical Center's own visitor directions say to take Metro's Red Line to Medical Center station, where the escalators come out onto the campus, with CAMPUS and CAMPUS LIMITED shuttles running from there. IMPORTANT AS OF JULY 2026: the same page states that from 6 July to 6 September 2026 trains do not run between North Bethesda and Friendship Heights — which includes Medical Center — and that free WMATA shuttle buses replace trains at Grosvenor-Strathmore, Medical Center and Bethesda. If you are arriving inside that window, plan around buses rather than trains, and check WMATA for the current position before you sign anything. Once normal service resumes, the upper Red Line — Bethesda, Grosvenor-Strathmore, North Bethesda, Twinbrook, Rockville — is the natural place to look, with Friendship Heights and Silver Spring an easy ride.
Who it’s for
Visiting fellows, postbacs, postdocs, and visiting scientists assigned to the NIH Bethesda campus
Institutions nearby
NIH Bethesda, NIH Clinical Center
Official resources
External links. Not affiliated with or endorsed by these organizations.
NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education — housing (official) ↗NIH's own housing page for incoming trainees. It states plainly that NIH does not provide housing for fellows, and points outward to FAES and to state housing-search sites. Read it before you plan around anything.
FAES housing at NIH (official, independent foundation) ↗Furnished single rooms in shared houses near the campus. Eligibility as published on the FAES housing page, retrieved 25 July 2026: you must be enrolled in an NIH stipend-paid fellowship or scholarship programme and hold an NIH badge; federal employees, contractors and special volunteers are stated to be ineligible. FAES also states it maintains a waitlist, so even an eligible fellow should not treat a room as available. FAES is an independent foundation, not NIH, and its page carries no last-updated date.
NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education (official) ↗NIH's official office for postbacs, fellows, and trainees in the Intramural Research Program. Trainees generally arrange their own housing — this is an independent community resource to help with that.
NIH Clinical Center — visitor directions (official) ↗NIH's own directions: Red Line to Medical Center station, with campus shuttles from there. Note that the lodging the Clinical Center lists is for patients and their families, not for researchers.
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Commuting to NIH
NIH Bethesda is one of the few large federal research campuses in the region where a car-free life is straightforward in normal times: the Clinical Center's own directions say to take the Red Line to Medical Center, and the station escalators come out onto the campus. That single fact shapes the whole Bethesda housing decision — you are choosing a position on one Metro line rather than a driving radius.
The thing people get wrong
Medical Center station sits on the campus — but check WMATA before you plan around it: NIH's own visitor page flags a Red Line closure between North Bethesda and Friendship Heights from 6 July to 6 September 2026, with replacement buses.
How the transit actually works
- The campus stationThe NIH Clinical Center publishes: take Metro's Red Line to Medical Center station, whose escalators come out onto the NIH campus, with CAMPUS and CAMPUS LIMITED shuttles running from there. The Clinical Center's own address is 10 Center Drive; the campus address is 9000 Rockville Pike.
- The 2026 Red Line closureNIH's visitor page states that from 6 July to 6 September 2026 trains do not run between North Bethesda and Friendship Heights, which includes Medical Center, and that free WMATA shuttle buses replace trains at Grosvenor-Strathmore, Medical Center and Bethesda. If you are arriving inside that window, budget for buses and confirm the current position with WMATA — track work timelines move.
- Where the Red Line puts youBethesda, Grosvenor-Strathmore, North Bethesda, Twinbrook and Rockville are all one seat from the campus in normal service, and each step out is generally cheaper than the last. Friendship Heights and Silver Spring are easy rides on the other side.
- The housing reality this transit sits on top ofNIH's own training office states that NIH does not provide housing for fellows. FAES, the NIH-adjacent option that page points to, publishes eligibility limited to people enrolled in an NIH stipend-paid fellowship or scholarship programme who hold an NIH badge, and states that federal employees, contractors and special volunteers are not eligible — plus a waitlist. So for many arrivals the commute question and the private-market question are the same question.
- A caution about lodging you will see mentionedThe Clinical Center lists family lodging near the campus. That accommodation is for patients and their families, not for researchers, and it is a common and understandable mix-up for someone reading NIH pages for the first time.
Where people live, and what the connection is
- Bethesda — Walk or one stop to the campus. The most convenient and the most expensive.
- North Bethesda & Grosvenor-Strathmore — One or two stops out on the Red Line for meaningfully less, with plenty of purpose-built rental stock.
- Twinbrook & Rockville — Further up the same line and cheaper again; Rockville adds MARC Brunswick for trips further north.
- Silver Spring — The other side of the Red Line, lively and well served, and useful if your household splits between NIH and a Silver Spring destination.
- Friendship Heights & upper Northwest DC — In the District rather than Maryland, which changes your tenant rights — a short ride, a different jurisdiction.
- Rockville Pike corridor — Car-oriented but well stocked with flexible-term and furnished options, and on the bus network if you would rather not drive.
Do you need a car?
- A car is genuinely optional here in normal service — this is the most transit-adjacent large federal campus in the region.
- Bethesda parking is expensive and campus parking is limited; many fellows deliberately arrive without a car.
- The Capital Crescent Trail makes cycling from Bethesda and beyond a real option in good weather.
Nights and weekends
- Metro does not run all night. If your lab work runs late, check last-train times for the Red Line before committing to a car-free plan.
- During the 2026 track work, replacement buses take longer than trains — build that into any evening commute you are planning around.
- Two things make older advice unreliable in this region: WMATA replaced its entire Metrobus network in 2025, so any bus route number from before then may no longer exist, and the DC Streetcar has been wound down. Commuter rail is not a substitute for Metro either — MARC and VRE run limited, mostly weekday schedules. Check the operating agency rather than a remembered route.
Step-free access
Medical Center is a deep station with long escalators; WMATA publishes elevator status, which is worth checking if step-free access matters to your daily commute.
Campuses in this corridor
Named because of where they are. GuestResearcher is independent and not affiliated with any of them.
- National Institutes of Health — Bethesda campus — 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, with the Clinical Center at 10 Center Drive (Bethesda). Official page ↗
Service across this region is run by many separate agencies, and it changes — Metro lines get single-tracked for work, commuter rail runs on a weekday-only or peak-only schedule, and local bus networks are redesigned. Everything here describes route patterns and published service levels rather than journey times, and none of it is a guarantee. Check the operating agency for live service before you commit to an address. WMATA service status ↗. Sources for this section: NIH Clinical Center — visitor directions ↗ · NIH — visitor information ↗ · NIH OITE — housing for incoming trainees ↗ · WMATA — service status, maps and accessibility ↗ · MARC Train — schedules and service (MDOT MTA) ↗. Need something more general? Getting around without a car.
Housing paths near NIH
Institution-run housing, university listing services, academic networks, student and intern residences, flexible commercial rentals, and the open market — with what each one’s own pages say about who is eligible, how long you can stay, and what documents you need. Read from the provider’s pages on the dates shown, not from anyone’s marketing.
9 of 10 paths look worth checking for what you described. Nothing is hidden — the rest are below with the reason.
- Institution listing services Institution affiliate-submittedWorth checking
University off-campus housing listing services
Most Washington universities run an off-campus listings board. Some are public, some are affiliate-gated, and the difference decides whether you can use one before you arrive.
- Who it's for
- Affiliates of the university running the board; a couple are broader.
- Eligibility
- It varies, and the variation is the point. Georgetown's Office of Neighborhood Life runs a public-facing listings site and describes itself as supporting students, non-students and permanent residents in the surrounding neighbourhoods. The University of Maryland describes its off-campus database as free for students, staff and faculty to search and list — an affiliation framing rather than a public one. Check which kind you are looking at before assuming access.
- Realistic for a visiting researcher?
- The affiliate-gated boards are the better ones — the posters are identifiable — but you generally need credentials, which you may not have until you arrive. The public ones are usable immediately and correspondingly less filtered.
- Stay length
- Set by whoever posts the listing; academic-year and term sublets are common.
- When
- Varies
- Furnished
- Varies
- Utilities included
- Varies
- Documents asked for
- University credentials for the gated boards; nothing for the public ones.
- U.S. credit history
- Sometimes required
- Guarantor
- Sometimes required
- How you get in
- Listing board — you contact posters
- Who handles the money
- Introductions only — you arrange payment directly
- Costs
- The services themselves are offered at no charge; terms are whatever the individual poster asks.
- Where
- Whichever neighbourhoods that university's community lives in.
Before you rely on this
- A university listings board is not a vetted board. Nobody has inspected the property or confirmed the poster is entitled to rent it.
- Ask your host department early whether your appointment gets you credentials — it is often the difference between a good board and no board.
- SabbaticalHomes Verified academic hostWorth checking
A listing network built around academics renting, exchanging or sharing homes — and the rare option that does not require you to be attached to a host institution.
Full details, eligibility and sources → - Furnished Finder Commercial providerWorth checking
A listing marketplace for month-plus furnished rentals that names travelling academics among the guests it serves.
Full details, eligibility and sources → - Landing Commercial providerWorth checking
Furnished apartments on a monthly membership model, with a 30-night minimum and no security deposit.
Full details, eligibility and sources → - Bungalow Commercial providerWorth checking
Private rooms in shared houses across Washington, with utilities included and lease lengths from a few months.
Full details, eligibility and sources → - The open rental market Information only — unverifiedWorth checking
An ordinary lease in Maryland — and Montgomery County's extra rules
Maryland tightened its deposit cap in 2024, and Montgomery County adds rent stabilisation and a two-year lease offer on top of state law.
- Who it's for
- Anyone who can satisfy a landlord's screening.
- Eligibility
- No enrolment or employment requirement — private screening is the barrier. If your campus is NIH Bethesda, NIST Gaithersburg or Shady Grove, you are almost certainly signing in Montgomery County, which has its own layer of rules that state-level summaries leave out.
- Realistic for a visiting researcher?
- The default for the Maryland science corridor. Montgomery County's rules work in a visiting researcher's favour more often than not, and almost nobody arriving knows about them.
- Stay length
- State law requires a written lease only from landlords offering five or more units in Maryland, and presumes a one-year term where there is none. Montgomery County goes further: a landlord must offer a two-year term initially and at each renewal, absent reasonable cause. You do not have to take it, but you are entitled to be offered it.
- When
- Year-round
- Furnished
- No
- Utilities included
- Varies
- Documents asked for
- Typically identification, proof of income, bank statements, references and a credit check.
- U.S. credit history
- Usually required
- Guarantor
- Sometimes required
- How you get in
- Ordinary lease on the open market
- Who handles the money
- Introductions only — you arrange payment directly
- Costs
- Maryland moved to a one-month security deposit cap in October 2024, with a narrow two-month exception tied to utility assistance. Application fees above a set figure must be refunded except for actual credit-check costs. Montgomery County operates its own rent stabilisation law with an annual cap on increases for covered units.
- Where
- Suburban Maryland — Montgomery and Prince George's counties in particular.
Before you rely on this
- Ask whether the unit is covered by Montgomery County rent stabilisation, and whether you were offered the two-year term. Neither will be volunteered.
- County licensing rules apply to rentals, including basement units — the same signal as in the District.
- This is housing information, not legal advice. Check the current rules at the source before relying on them.
- Stays shorter than a month Information only — unverifiedWorth checking
Short stays are regulated differently in each jurisdiction, and the District's rules are the tightest of the three.
Full details, eligibility and sources → - A sublet or a room in someone's place Information only — unverifiedWorth checking
The most common way an academic visitor actually lands in Washington — and the route where the three jurisdictions diverge most sharply.
Full details, eligibility and sources → - GuestResearcher community listings GuestResearcher-reviewedWorth checking
Rooms, sublets and short-term stays posted by researchers and hosts on this site, plus a way to post what you are looking for.
Full details, eligibility and sources → - Institution-run housing Institution-operatedCheck carefully
FAES housing at NIH
Furnished single rooms in shared houses close to the NIH Bethesda campus, run by the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences — the one NIH-adjacent housing option NIH's own training office points to.
- Your host institution has to arrange this — ask your department before you plan around it.
- Who it's for
- People enrolled in an NIH stipend-paid fellowship or scholarship programme.
- Eligibility
- Tightly gated, and the gate is the single most decision-relevant fact for anyone heading to Bethesda. FAES publishes three conditions: you must be enrolled in an NIH stipend-paid fellowship or scholarship programme, you must hold an NIH badge, and you must pay the first full month plus any pro-rated fee before move-in. Applicants classified as federal employees, federal contractors or special volunteers are stated to be ineligible. So an unaffiliated, unpaid, contractor or special-volunteer visiting researcher cannot use it.
- Realistic for a visiting researcher?
- Excellent if you are a stipend-paid NIH fellow — furnished, close, and set up for exactly your situation. Closed to everyone else, including many people who reasonably think of themselves as NIH researchers.
- Stay length
- Occupancy runs on an individualised occupancy agreement with 28 calendar days' notice to end or extend it. FAES also states it maintains a waitlist, so an eligible fellow should not treat a room as available.
- When
- Year-round
- Furnished
- Yes
- Utilities included
- Yes
- Documents asked for
- Enrolment in an NIH stipend-paid fellowship or scholarship programme, and an NIH badge.
- U.S. credit history
- Not typically required
- Guarantor
- Not typically required
- How you get in
- Apply to the provider
- Who handles the money
- The provider takes payment
- Costs
- The page states no figures at all, only that FAES prioritises keeping housing affordable. First month plus any pro-rated fee is due before move-in. Housecleaning, lawn care, snow removal and pest control are described as included.
- Where
- Shared houses close to the NIH campus in Bethesda.
Before you rely on this
- FAES is an independent foundation, not NIH — do not read an NIH endorsement into it, and do not assume NIH can intervene on your behalf.
- The FAES housing page carries no last-updated date, so the eligibility terms above are as published when we retrieved them on 25 July 2026. Confirm before planning around them.
- Nearby lodging you may have heard of — the Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge and The Children's Inn at NIH — is for patients, research participants and their families. It is not researcher accommodation, and asking for it as one wastes everyone's time.
Sources checked 2026-07-25. Terms, dates and prices change without notice and this is housing information, not legal advice — always confirm at the source before you commit or pay. GuestResearcher has no availability feed from any organisation named here and receives nothing from any of them.
What the labels on each option mean
These describe where the information came from. None of them is a safety rating, and none means an option has been vetted, endorsed or guaranteed.
- Institution-operated
- Run by the university, hospital, or research institute itself. Eligibility and terms come from that institution, not from us.
- Institution affiliate-submitted
- A board or service where posts come from people affiliated with an institution. The institution hosts the service; it does not inspect the homes.
- Verified academic host
- A network whose members are academics, usually confirmed by an institutional email. Membership is not an inspection of the property.
- GuestResearcher-reviewed
- A GuestResearcher listing that a moderator looked at before it went public. Review checks the posting, not the property or the person's ownership of it.
- Commercial provider
- A business that rents or brokers housing. Listed because researchers realistically use it — not because of any relationship with us.
- Information only — unverified
- Summarized from public information for orientation. Nothing here has been confirmed with the provider on your behalf.
Before you send anyone money in the Washington region
- Ask which jurisdiction you are renting in, and check the deposit against it. The District caps a security deposit at the first full month’s rent, Maryland at one month, and Virginia allows two. A demand above the local cap is worth questioning before you pay it, not after.
- In Virginia, confirm the sublet in writing before you sign anything. Virginia law gives tenants no general right to sublet — it only regulates how fast a landlord must answer where the lease already has an approval clause. If the person renting to you is themselves a tenant, ask to see the lease and the landlord’s written consent.
- Ask for the rental licence number. Operating a rental is a licensed business activity in the District, renting out rooms or a basement unit falls under a specific licence class, and Montgomery County licenses short-term rentals separately. How someone reacts to the question tells you as much as the answer.
- Never pay by wire transfer, gift card or cryptocurrency, and never under time pressure. The District’s consumer-protection regulator advises keeping payments on the platform you found the listing on rather than moving them off it.
- Insist on a live video walkthrough if you cannot visit — a live call where you can ask them to point the camera at the street sign, not a recorded tour.
- Treat a below-market offer as the bait, not the bargain. A cheap furnished room offered to a stranger abroad, near a campus where everyone is looking, is unusual enough to deserve suspicion.
- An institutional email address proves nothing about a property. It shows someone controls an account. It says nothing about whether they own, rent or control the place — and a .gov or .edu address is no more evidence than any other.
- A shuttle is not a commute you can rely on yet.NCI’s shuttles need an NIH badge or a sponsor-issued pass, and NIST frames its Shady Grove shuttle as being for official visitors and staff. If a listing sells you on a campus shuttle, check whether you will actually be allowed on it.
GuestResearcher does not verify, inspect or guarantee any listing, host, programme or transaction, here or anywhere else. This is general information, not legal advice. Read the Washington scam and unlicensed-sublet guide and the site-wide trust & safety page before you commit.
Where research dollars are near NIH
Recent federal research awards and open opportunities from official public data (NIH RePORTER). These are recent examples, not a complete total. Useful context for deciding where to live near NIH Bethesda.
- Cellular organization, division, and differentiation in an ancient, genetically reduced bacterium (FY2026)HENRY M. JACKSON FDN FOR THE ADV MIL/MED · official record ↗
- CORE NICHD NETWORK CLINICAL SITE SUPPORT FOR IMPAACT RELATED STUDIES (FY2026)WESTAT, INC. · official record ↗
- Regulation of microtubule organizing centers during mammalian gametogenesis (FY2026)HENRY M. JACKSON FDN FOR THE ADV MIL/MED · official record ↗
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Events
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A newcomer happy hour or coffee meetup is the fastest way to build community for visiting researchers here.
Guides for NIH
Moving to the DC area for a research stay
A practical first-week checklist for arriving researchers: where to land, how to get around, and what to set up first.
Read guide →Housing near NIH Bethesda for visiting fellows
Where fellows and postbacs live around the Bethesda campus, and how to commute car-free.
Read guide →NIH housing list & SAMSList alternatives near Bethesda
An independent guide to finding furnished rooms, sublets, and short-term housing near NIH in Bethesda — a practical alternative for fellows and postdocs when the old NIH SAMSList isn't active for you.
Read guide →Renting without U.S. credit history
How international researchers can secure a lease without a U.S. credit score.
Read guide →Short-term furnished housing near DC research campuses
Where to look for furnished short-term rentals near the campuses, and what to confirm before you commit.
Read guide →Basement apartment checklist for visiting researchers
Basement units are common and affordable here — here's what to inspect first.
Read guide →How to evaluate a room rental near a research campus
A practical, step-by-step way for visiting researchers to judge a room or sublet near a research hub before committing — what to ask, what to check, and how to stay safe.
Read guide →Getting around without a car near NIH/NIST
Transit, biking, and car-share options so you can skip buying a car.
Read guide →Federal Science Corridor housing guide
How to choose between NIH, NIST, and the I-270 corridor when you can live anywhere along the Red Line — by commute, budget, and lifestyle.
Read guide →How to meet other visiting researchers in the DC area
A short stay is easier with a network. Concrete ways to meet other visiting researchers, fellows, and scholars near the campuses.
Read guide →How to organize a happy hour or newcomer meetup
A simple playbook for hosting a low-stress newcomer happy hour or meetup for visiting researchers — and posting it so people show up.
Read guide →Short-term housing near NIH, NIST, and DC research campuses
The main short-term housing options for visiting researchers — sublets, shared houses, aparthotels, and corporate housing — and which fits each campus.
Read guide →Roommate checklist for visiting researchers
What to sort out before moving in with roommates during a research stay — money, space, schedules, and an easy exit.
Read guide →Questions to ask before renting a basement apartment
The exact questions to ask a landlord before taking a basement or in-law unit — light, moisture, utilities, access, and legality.
Read guide →How to find community events as a visiting scholar
Where to find newcomer happy hours, meetups, and gatherings during a short research stay — and how to not miss them.
Read guide →What to do during your first week in the DC area as a visiting researcher
A day-by-day first-week checklist for arriving researchers: badge, bank, phone, transit, housing, and finding people.
Read guide →DC-area research hubs: a guide for visiting researchers
A practical directory of the DC/Maryland research hubs visiting scholars, fellows, postdocs, and interns live around — federal campuses, universities, and corridors — with where to look for housing near each.
Read guide →Visiting researcher housing in Washington DC
Almost every named housing option in the capital has an eligibility gate, and most people find it after making plans. What each route actually requires.
Read guide →Renting in DC, Maryland or Virginia: what actually differs
Three sets of rules inside one commute. Deposits, application fees, lease terms, rent control and — the big one — whether you are allowed to sublet.
Read guide →Washington rental scams and unlicensed sublets
In this region the useful checks are licensing checks. Whether a rental is licensed, and whether the person offering it is allowed to, are questions with public answers.
Read guide →Other communities near NIH
Commute-overlapping areas — widen your search if listings here are sparse. Proximity only; no affiliation implied.
NIST Gaithersburg
Housing and community for guest researchers, associates, NRC postdocs, and visiting scientists assigned to the NIST Gaithersburg campus. The practical starting point: NIST's Foreign Guest Researcher Program page and its campus-access page carry no housing or lodging guidance at all, and that programme page states that most of your funding will need to come from a sponsoring company or institution — so an incoming guest researcher is arranging housing alone, often on someone else's budget. The campus does run a shuttle from Shady Grove Metro, which widens where you can realistically live. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or the Department of Commerce.
Explore hub →RockvilleRockville & Shady Grove life sciences
Housing for researchers assigned to the Rockville life-sciences cluster — the National Cancer Institute's Shady Grove campus, the Universities at Shady Grove, and the J. Craig Venter Institute's Maryland site. People sent here routinely start their search in Bethesda and end up with a commute nobody warned them about: these campuses are not walkable from NIH Bethesda or from NIST, and NCI runs its own shuttle between Shady Grove and the NIH main campus precisely because they are separate places. This hub covers the Rockville market on its own terms, and names honestly which shuttles you can actually use. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by NCI, NIH, the University System of Maryland, or JCVI.
Explore hub →MoCo CorridorMontgomery County Federal Science Corridor
The Montgomery County science corridor for visitors who move between campuses rather than living beside one: FDA White Oak and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research at Forest Glen, plus the Red Line and I-270 links to NIH Bethesda and NIST Gaithersburg. If you are assigned to one specific campus, start with that campus's own hub — this page is for choosing between them and for the commutes that cross them.
Explore hub →Silver SpringSilver Spring / Forest Glen
Furnished rooms, basement apartments, short-term rentals, sublets, and shared housing in Silver Spring and Forest Glen, Maryland — for people working at the NOAA Silver Spring campus, the FDA White Oak campus, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) at the Forest Glen Annex, plus Red Line commuters to NIH/Bethesda and DC research and government offices. It's early days for this area, so listings may be sparse at first. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA, the FDA, WRAIR, NIH, HHS, the Department of Defense, or any government or university institution.
Explore hub →DC metroWashington DC metro research community
Researcher housing guidance organised around where you actually work and how you will commute across Washington, Maryland and Northern Virginia. This is the page for choosing: which campus you are assigned to, which jurisdiction you want to be a tenant in, and whether you can live without a car. The starting fact most arrivals learn late is that the institutions bringing you here mostly do not house you — NIH states in terms that it does not provide housing for fellows, and the NIH-adjacent option it points to is limited to badge-holding stipend fellows; NIST's guest-researcher pages carry no housing guidance at all. If you already know your campus, go straight to its own hub — NIH Bethesda and NIST Gaithersburg each have one. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by any agency, hospital or university.
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