Research Irregularities, A Suicide, and FOIA

By John A. Jenkins, Law Street Media, Aug. 16, 2023

Columbia University’s New York State Psychiatric Institute has a storied research history stretching back to its founding in 1895 as one of the first institutions in the U.S. to integrate teaching, research, and therapeutic approaches to the care of patients with mental illnesses. Its website boasts that the Institute consistently ranks at the top of federally funded mental-health research grants, and calls its research “the leading edge of today’s discoveries in mental health.” Indeed, the numbers speak for themselves.  Currently, almost 500 externally-funded studies with budgets totaling $86 million are underway at the Institute, many of them supported by the federal government. 

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