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On Preserving the National Institute of Mental Health Career Scientist Award
Philip S. Holzman, PhD;
David J. Kupfer, MD;
Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:12-14.
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When the new leadership of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Rockville, Md, decided to limit the Career Scientist Award (known as the K-05) to a single 5-year term, we believe they may have unwittingly invoked the law of unintended consequences.
The K-05 award is part of a major NIMH program commitment that supports individual researchers rather than research projects. Begun in 1954, the program recognized a need for long-term support that would attract the brightest and most creative young psychiatrists and those in allied disciplines into research careers. Bert E. Boothe, PhD, the first director of this research scientist development program, saw the necessity for several levels of support. The entry level (called the K-01), designed to overcome some of the deterrents to undertaking research in mental health, provided 5 years of salary support together . . . [Full Text of this Article]
From Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass (Dr Holzman); University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa (Dr Kupfer); and University of Iowa, Iowa City (Dr Andreasen).
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