I was born in Kalamazoo, MI in 1948. My father was a Marine who served in the South Pacific during WWII and trained recruits at Camp Pendleton during the Korean War. My mother was an elementary sch...показать большеI was born in Kalamazoo, MI in 1948. My father was a Marine who served in the South Pacific during WWII and trained recruits at Camp Pendleton during the Korean War. My mother was an elementary school teacher for over 35 years. I married Carol Roberts, the daughter of a Benton Harbor, MI mail carrier, in 1969. We have four daughters. I served at the First U.S. Army Medical Laboratory at Fort Meade during the Viet Nam War. I entered a graduate program in virology in 1973 and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry (UTHSC, San Antonio) in 1977. I accepted a Pathology postdoctoral position at UNC, Chapel Hill in 1977 and joined the faculty in 1980. In 1985 I was hired by Baxter to develop biopharmaceuticals and was promoted to VP Scientific Affairs in 1990, interacting directly with FDA. I began an entrepreneurial career in 2000 and found success in 2005 as CEO of Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals. I began story writing after I retired in 2020 and decided to take a shot at a novel in 2021.показать меньше