Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Preferred Citation
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Processing Information
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biographical / Historical
Scope and Contents
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Jerome Levine collection of Early Clinical Drug Evaluation Units material and other
documents
Source:
Levine, Jerome, 1934-
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.1244
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1960-1982
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.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
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.
Scope and Contents
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).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Levine, Jerome, 1934-