Finding Aid for the Jerome Levine Collection of Early Clinical Drug Evaluation Units Material and Other Documents Biomed.1244
Finding aid prepared by Shira Peltzman, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 2020 November 17.
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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
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Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[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.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6970964
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.
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-