Medical Researcher Allen D. Allen Is Waiting...

Much of our lives are spent waiting. We wait for our hopes, plans and actions to develop, progress and mature. Allen D. Allen is a retired medical researcher and he too is waiting. He waits for the final chapter of his innovative life work. Allen waits for the implementation of a blood test that he discovered to identify major depression. Most significantly, he is waiting for a Phase III clinical trial of an antibody that can change how HIV/AIDS is treated. In life, it takes a great deal of work and effort to hurry up and wait. A Medical Researcher can be found at most university teaching hospitals. Their job is to observe and ponder. In the academic world of "publish or perish," a medical researcher is looking for an interesting topic to investigate and launch into a study. It is a job that requires equal parts hope and skepticism. Educated at Berkeley and UCLA, Allen D. Allen eventually landed into his desired role as a medical researcher in the 1980s. "I am very curious," says Allen, "I like to pour over random case files, because, at some time, a pattern develops and there is that "Eureka" moment of a discovery." Prior to this, Allen found success in two very different, yet related, fields. As a songwriter, he composed a few hits, namely "Just Married," a famous record by Marty Robbins. Advertising jingles proved to be the most lucrative. In the Sixties, Allen worked with many ad agencies and confesses, "It really was just like Mad Men." He wrote and produced jing...
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