Executive Director

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Jeff Allen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Director of Friends of Cancer Research (Friends), a Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the nation's progress toward prevention and treatment of cancer by mobilizing public support for cancer research funding and providing education on key public policy issues.

Prior to joining Friends, Dr. Allen was an endocrinology fellow in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Heath. His background in cancer research focused upon molecular changes associated with cancer formation as well as treatments to prevent cancer progression. Dr. Allen has been published in numerous medical journals, including his work relating to bladder cancer, in AACR’s “Cancer Research.”

Dr. Allen serves on C-Change’s Chemoprevention Advisory Committee, Patent Law Advisory Subcommittee and the Clinical Trials and Biomarker Workgroup. Allen is also a member of the National Health Council FDA Issue Team, and serves on the Global Access Project of the National Patient Advocacy Foundation. Jeff is also a foremost expert on Comparative Effectiveness Research and recently served as the organizing author of a 2009 report, "Improving Medical Decisions Through Comparative Effectiveness Research: Cancer as a Case Study" co-authored by a 25 member academic committee.

Dr. Allen received his Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from Georgetown University Medical Center, and holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology (cum laude) from Bowling Green State University.