Jerome Levine collection of Early Clinical Drug Evaluation Units material and other documents, 1960-1982

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Summary

Creators:
Levine, Jerome, 1934-
Extent:
1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Jerome Levine Collection of Early Clinical Drug Evaluation Units Material and Other Documents (Collection 1244). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of typescript memoranda announcing the ECDEU program (1960-1963) and its name change to NCDEU (1976) and printed manuals (1970-1979) pertaining to Early Clinical Drug Evaluation Units (ECDEU); and dot-matrix computer printouts (1979, 1982) from the Biometric Laboratory Information Processing System (BLIPS).

Biographical / historical:

Jerome Levine, M.D., was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1934. He joined the Psychopharmacology Service Center (PSC) at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), becoming its director in 1969 when the unit was reorganized as the Psychopharmacology Research Branch (PRB) and held that post through 1994. Later he was Deputy Director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (Orangeburg, N.Y.) and Research Professor in Psychiatry at New York University.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Jerome Levine, 2011.
Processing information:

Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Names:
Levine, Jerome, 1934-

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Jerome Levine Collection of Early Clinical Drug Evaluation Units Material and Other Documents (Collection 1244). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
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