LABORATORY AND BRANCH RESEARCH REVIEWS 93Julius Axelrod, Ph.D.
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With Evarts as acting chief, Cohen sought a senior research psychiatrist
to head this new laboratory. He and Kety had met and been impressed
by Joel Elkes, then professor of experimental medicine at the University
William Pollin, M.D.
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of Birmingham in England, and offered him the position. Obligations at
Birmingham, however, prevented Elkes from accepting it, leaving the
position unfilled until Kety stepped down as director of the joint NIMH
NINDB basic research program in 1956 and offered to fill the position.^22
After adding funds and positions from the basic program–which Kety
filled with Louis Sokoloff and Jack Durell, among others–Kety became
the chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Science.^23