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`the Risks and Eenetits to
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`Patients With Cancer
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`Participating in Phase l
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`Usefulness o: Serum Methymalonic
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`Acid and Total Homocysteine
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`Concentrations"
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`the American
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`Society o: Clinical Oncology 254
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`Drugs@FDA printout regarding
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`Product insert for Neupogen
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`Deposition transcript o:
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`Bruce Chabner, dated
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`ixhibit 2141 Transcript o_ -rial
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`proceedings dated
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`August 26, 2013
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`ixhibit 2142 Transcript o_ -rial
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`proceedings dated
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`August 27, 2013
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`P R O C
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`TH£ V )%OGRAP{ER:
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`{ere begins the
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`videotape No.
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`in the deposition o‘
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`Rruce A.
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`Chabner, M.D.,
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`in the matter o: Sandoz versus Eli
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`Lilly.
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`In the U.S. Patent and Trademark o
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`before the patent trial appeals board, Case No.
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`ZPR20l6—00240 [sic].
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`The date today is November
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`l0, 20l6,
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`and the time is 8:l6 a.m.
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`The video operator
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`today is Steven 3aty. This video deposition is
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`taking place at Foley Hoag,
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`l55 Seaport
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`Roulevard, Qoston, Massachusetts.
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`Counsel please voice identify
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`yourselves and state whom you represent.
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`MR. GROSSMAN:
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`This is Dov Grossman o:
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`"illiams & Connolly, on behal
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`'T.l1'T.1'lly.
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`And,
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`just to clarity,
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`W8. MALM%fiRG: Mieke Malmberg o:
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`MR. NAGGAR: Charles Naggar of Alston &
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`MS. LY) GSfiN:
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`Laura Lydigsen from
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`MR. GA%R C:
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`Good morning. Ralph
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`<s Ho:er, on behal
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`Tifi V )fiOGRAPHER:
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`Thank you.
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`The
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`Would you please swear in the wit
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`%RUCfi CHA%NfiR, M.D.,
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`having been dily sworn, after presenting
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`identification in the "orm o“ a driver's license,
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`deposes and says as
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`CROSS—fiXAM NAT
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`%R C:
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Good morning, Dr. Chabner.
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`Hi.
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`You've had your deposition taken
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`fore. Correct?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`Q.
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`All right.
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`And you are familiar with
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`the ground rules.
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`I get
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`to ask some questions
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`and --
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`A
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`Q.
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`A
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`get
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`to answer.
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`Correc .
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`Yeah.
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`Q.
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`Any reason why you are compromised in
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`your ability to Lestijy today?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`A husky voice.
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`But you're not on any medication that
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`"ect your ability to testi:
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`No.
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`Nothing else that would a
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`A.
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`Q.
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`ability to testify?
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`A.
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`No. Only my intelligence.
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`Okay. Well, you've got plenty oz
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`can tell.
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`Hopefully.
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`All right.
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`ll me your first name.
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`I'm sorry.
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`My first name is Ralph.
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`Zph.
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`(Lilly ixhibit 9170 incorporated
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`by reference.)
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`QY MR. GA%R C:
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`Q.
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`I'm going to show you what has been
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`<ed as Exhibit 2l2O in this matter and ask you
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`-haL's a declaration you prepared for this
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`fer?
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`A.
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`It does look like it.
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`I haven't
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`I
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`at every page or it.
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`I won't, but it does I
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`like it, yes.
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`Q.
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`All right.
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`And have you reviewed that
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`declaration since it was prepared?
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`A.
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`I have.
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`Q.
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`Okay. And did you find any errors in
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`it or anything like that?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`Some spelling errors and some --
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`there are some errors in it. Yes.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`How about substantive errors?
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`Not really.
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`I mean,
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`there was one
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`place where the crcatinine,
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`instead —— it was
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`creatinine clearance instead o: creatinine and
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`serum creatinine, which makes a di
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`"erence,
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`to me
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`at least, but it's just an error.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Okay. Where in that declaration?
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`I don't know.
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`I can't tell you.
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`don't have the page number.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`O<ay.
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`"‘ we ge'
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`I'll show it to you.
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`All righ .
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`And there are several other spelling
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`errors and things. Yes.
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`(Li11y ixhibit 7171
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`incorporated
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`by reference.)
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`BY MR. GA%R C:
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`Q.
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`I'm going to show you Lilly
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`ixhibit 7171.
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`To you recognize that document?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Tha'
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`—— yes.
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`Tha'
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`—
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`is that a current copy o:
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`It's a copy as o:
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`last year.
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`Q. GROSSMAN:
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`Do you have a copy
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`Counsel?
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`MR. GA%R C:
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`Oh,
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`I'm sorry.
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`Q.
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`Anything significant to add to your CV
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`since last year that we should be aware of, as
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`far as you're concerned?
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`A.
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`Yeah.
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`A number o: papers and a --
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`maybe a significant honor. Yeah.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Any o_
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`-hose papers on pemetrexed?
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`Oh,
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`that's go— —— an interesting
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`question.
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`Probably not.
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`Probably relative to
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`some o:
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`the issues, but not on pemetrexed.
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`Q.
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`What
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`issues would those papers be
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`relevant
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`to from your perspective?
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`A.
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`Approval process for new drugs.
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`FDA.
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`And one important paper,
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`I
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`think, on —— on
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`how to screen for antitumor activity using cell
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`lines.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Any other papers?
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`Yeah.
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`A couple o: others, but not
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`relevant
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`to this,
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`I
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`think.
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`Q.
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`Now,
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`judging from your CV, you worked
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`previously at
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`the National Cancer Institute, NCI.
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`A
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`Q.
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`A
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`That's right.
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`For about 20 years?
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`Almost 27 years.
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`Q.
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`And the NCI,
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`is that part o:
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`National InsLi-uLe oj Health?
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`A.
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`It's part of the National Institutes o:
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`It's one o_ _he institutes.
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`Q.
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`And at
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`the NCI,
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`just generally, what
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`did your duties involve?
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`A. Well,
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`I came there,
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`jirst,
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`jor training
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`in medical oncology and then a period o: research
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`in drug development and pharmacology. And after
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`spending two years away, one year in the junior
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`‘aculty at Yale in the pharmacology department,
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`came back there as an attending in the medical
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`oncology group, but also as a laboratory person
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`studying anticancer drugs and I became the
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`laboratory chie
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`o
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`clinical pharmacology and
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`then the head of the intermural clinical service,
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`director o:
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`the c'inica' oncology program.
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`And then in ’98l,
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`" was appointed as the
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`head o:
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`the division or cancer
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`-rea-menL,
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`in an
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`acting role, and then shortly a_ -erward became
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`the permanent director. Add in that capacity,
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`was responsible for the national program “or
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`cancer drug development and cancer drug
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`discovery,
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`the programs _ha_ the Federal
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`Government sponsored. Add the clinical trials
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`network outside, plus intermural
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`research.
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`And
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`continued in that
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`job for l3 years until l995.
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`And then I was
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`in the Public Health Service at
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`that
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`time.
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`Q.
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`Now,
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`in the period leading up to June
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`o:
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`the l999 time frame, what role, it any, did
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`the NIH have in setting standards ‘or clinical
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`trials?
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`A. Well, it was
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`the major force in
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`sponsoring clinical trials, wor<ing with
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`industry, both in cancer and A )8.
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`We were
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`responsible, we were really the sole drug
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`development program in the —— in the Federal
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`Government for cancer, and then later ‘or A )8,
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`drug discovery, drug development. And then we
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`ran the clinical trial system that —— that tested
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`these compounds that we came up with.
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`Q.
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`And what is the clinical trial system?
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`A. Well, it was cooperative group sys'
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`and the intermural research system at
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`the N:
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`which was quite large.
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`And 25,000 patients on
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`trial a year,
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`through that federal system.
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`Q.
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`I want
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`back to June o:
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`l999 time frame.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`phases?
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`Yeah.
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`Were clinical
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`trials segregated into
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`A.
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`Yes. Certainly.
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`So there were the
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`typical drug went
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`through three phases o_ -esLing
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`and we were responsible, we had conLrac-s jor the
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`first Phase l and Phase 2 trials. And then
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`Phase 3s were usually done in the cooperative
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`groups, which were also one o: our
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`responsibilities.
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`Q.
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`And you used the terms Phase l,
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`Phase 2, and I believe Phase 3. Correct?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Right.
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`What is a Phase l trial, as o:
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`l999 time frame?
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`A. Well,
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`the —— Phase l trial was
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`the
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`‘irst initia'
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`trial ot a drug that goes into the
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`clinic, where we're trying to determine what is
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`the appropriate dose and schedule and whether
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`there's any early evidence o‘ c'inical activity.
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`And there are a number o: studies that are done
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`in conjunction with tha .
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`L999 was a transition
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`time when di
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`into the clinic,
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`so they were called targeted
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`drugs.
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`And with those drugs,
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`there was a
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`somewhat di
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`"erent approach to the Phase l trial,
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`where biomar<ers were used and patients were
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`highly selected to go into that —— that trial.
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`And probably,
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`I guess in the mid '90s, were
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`putting maybe tour or ‘ive drugs into Phase
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`coming from our program and there were some
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`industry that came through oar program.
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`Q.
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`And what would be the primary
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`objectives o:
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`the Phase l?
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`A. Well, as I said,
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`to establish a sate
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`and e
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`"ective rou-e o_ administration and to do
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`pharmacokinetic studies and to look at evidence
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`o: clinical activity and toxicity.
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`Q.
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`And when you say "clinical activity,"
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`what are you referring to?
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`Tumor responses.
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`"icacy?
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`Wo.
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`Tumor responses.
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`Okay.
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`Is that
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`e "icacy in --
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`Well,
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`that's what you're trying to do.
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`And it's your testimony that that's one
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`the primary objectives o: Phase l
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`in the June
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`A.
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`Yes. Certainly it's one o_ -he
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`objectives. Whenever you give a drug to a cancer
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`:ient, you're hoping that
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`the patient gets
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`:ter.
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`I mean, we wouldn't just give a drug
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`because we were interested in what happened to
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`the drug without knowing what happened to the
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`patient.
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`Q.
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`Yeah.
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`I under— —— I understand what
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`you're hoping :or.
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`My question is a little
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`di""erent,
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`though, Doctor.
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`Is it your testimony that a primary
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`objective in a Phase l study,
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`in June of
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`was
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`to evaluate --
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`lt's always that --
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`e ”icacy?
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`—— in a clinical trial.
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`You know,
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`the
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`‘irst time you put a drug into the patient, you
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`do a lot o: other things, certainly.
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`And you
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`want
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`to certainly establish the regimen that
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`you're going to use is sa:e.
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`And it gives you
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`drug levels that are going to be, you hope will
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`be e "ective. You're extrapolating from animal
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`studies, but you're also watching what happens to
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`the patient and the tumor.
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`And there was a
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`certain degree, at
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`went
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`into the Phase l trials, based on what we
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`knew about
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`the drug in the preclinical
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`experience.
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`These are therapeutic trials.
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`(Printout
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`from
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`ClinicalTrials.gov marked Exhibit
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`lO63.)
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`BY MR. GA%? C:
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`Q.
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`Doctor,
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`I'm going to show you
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`Exhibit —— what we've marked as Exhibit
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`Q.
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`And I'll represent
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`to you tor the
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`record that this is a printoue jrom the Wayback
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`Machine website from January o: 200l,
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`a couple o:
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`years after June o:
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`l999.
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`"'1' give you a chance
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`to look at that.
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`And I want
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`to focus on --
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`MR. GROSSMAN: Counsel, before you show
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`him this exhibit,
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`I'm going to object.
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`You
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`haven't established this as prior art.
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`And under
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`the rules you need to cure that objection.
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`MR. GA%R C:
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`I'm not representing this
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`is prior art.
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`I'm using this to —— I don't have
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`to give any explanation, but
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`I don't have to
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`prove this is prior art to use this with this
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`witness.
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`I believe this document
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`is inconsistent
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`MR. GROSSMAN: Well,
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`I'm going to
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`object, based on your representation, A, it's not
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`prior art.
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`3, you have no documentation from the
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`Wayback Machine,
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`such as a declaration
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`accompanying this showing that this is from the
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`time period you say it is, which is not prior
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`art.
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`Your objection is noted,
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`Q.
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`This is a —— are you familiar with the
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`Wayback Machine?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`No,
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`I'm tot.
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`Okay.
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`It's a service that goes back
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`and captures website —— pages, website pages that
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`existed at certain time frames. And we went back
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`and captured a website page from the National
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`"nsLiLu-e oj Health. Okay? And --
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`A.
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`Q.
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`This is --
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`—— they discuss here Phase l trials.
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`Do you see that?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`Q.
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`All right.
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`And can you read into the
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`record what it says with respect
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`to Phase l
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`trials?
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`A.
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`"Clinical
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`trials in which researchers
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`testing new drug or treatment —— treatment
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`in a
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`small group o_ paLien-s or people jor the first
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`time to evaluate sa_e-y, determine a safe dosage
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`range, and ideitify side e
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`"ects."
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`Q.
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`Right.
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`So on this —— on its website,
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`the NIH is basically saying the purpose o:
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`Phase l clinical
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`trial
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`is to, "evaluate i
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`safety." Right?
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`MR. GROSSMAN: Objection.
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`A.
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`It doesn't say "purpose."
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`It says
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`proceed through phases.
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`It doesn't say purpose.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Do you see where it says "in
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`clinical
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`trials." Correct?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I do.
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`All right.
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`And it says "evaluate."
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`you see that?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes.
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`Okay. And, "Evaluate its sa:
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`fety. Correct?
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`Right. That's what
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`I said.
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`Okay.
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`Then it says "determine a sa:
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`dosage range."
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`Do you see that?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Right.
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`And it says, "identify side e
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`Do you see that?
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`Right.
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`It doesn't say "identi
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`It says --
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`MR. GROSSMAN: Objection.
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`—— treatment, doesn't it?
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`So is it your testimony --
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`What is a treatment?
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`I want
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`to make sure I understand your
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`A
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`Q.
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`A
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`Q.
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`testimony.
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`So your testimony is,
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`is the statement here
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`"treatment" means evaluate evidence?
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`A.
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`So you always want
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`to get a look a‘
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`what it does to the tumor.
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`I mean, you don"
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`think people take x—rays when they're doing this?
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`They don't do physical exams on patients while
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`they're getting it? That's a very important part
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`of it.
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`It's a treatment experiment.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`So it's —— your testimony that a
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`primary objective o: a Phase l trial is --
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`A.
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`One of the objectives. Yes.
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`MR. GROSSMAN: Dr. Chabner, it might be
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`R. GROSSMAN:
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`Plus give me
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`time to
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`Iecessary.
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`Tifi w TNfiSS:
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`Oh, okay.
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`%R C:
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`Q.
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`Now you see now the entry for Phase 2
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`clinical trials?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I do.
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`Okay. And here they say, "the studied
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`drug or treatment
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`is given to larger group or
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`people to see it it is e "ective and to further
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`evaluate safety." Right?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes. That's right.
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`All right.
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`So Phase 2,
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`the Nil uses
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`the term to see it it's e "ective. Right?
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`A.
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`And that's because you have a larger
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`group o: patients,
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`so you get
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`some statistical
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`idea or more solid statistical idea.
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`By the way,
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`this is a rather brie;
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`description o: Phase l trials. What happens
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`after a Phase l
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`is we can go back and do Phase
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`trials, which try other regimens or changes in
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`the regimen that we've established for Phase l.
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`And a Phase lb does have di""erent connotations.
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`Q.
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`"
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`'1 get
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`to Phase lb in a second.
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`You said this was kind o:
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`: summary.
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`Is it inaccurate?
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`It's —— it's not complete.
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`Is it inaccurate?
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`Do you disagree?
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`didn't say --
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`MR. GROSSMAN: Objection. Asked and
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`answered.
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`A.
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`I didn't say it was
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`inaccurate in what
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`it says, but it's incomplete.
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`Q.
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`So it's your
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`testimony that
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`the NIH has
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`incomplete discussion ot Phase l and Phase 2
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`trials here?
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`A. Well,
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`this is a very brie: thing.
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`don't know who wrote this,
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`I have no idea who
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`wrote this.
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`It wasn't —— I certainly didn't
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`write it.
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`would say this:
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`That when yo; give a drug
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`to a patient, whether it's experimental or not,
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`an anticancer drug, you're always interested in
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`whether it has antitumor e "icacy. That's one o:
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`the —— I mean, it would be unethical
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`to give it
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`otherwise.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`You used the term "Phase lb."
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`Yes.
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`Okay.
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`I don't see the Phase lb trial
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`ted on this Exhibit 63 [sic].
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`Is that a term
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`t was used in June o:
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`l999?
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`Abso';te'y.
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`Abso';te'y?
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`‘YES.
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`3y who?
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`Ry all
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`o‘ us.
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`"hat is a Phase I
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`—— Phase lb trial?
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`lb.
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`What is that?
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`W(3C5(3C5(3C5(D[F
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`It's a —— it's a derivative trial,
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`in
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`which you change the schedule.
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`You may focus the
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`trial on a specific subset of patients, but it's
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`not
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`the first Phase l.
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`So a Phase l,
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`the first time you put it into
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`patients,
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`that's Phase L. You're mostly
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`interested in safety and pharmacokinetics and
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`yoi're also looking at —— at whether you get a
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`tumor response when you get
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`to a dose that you
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`think is —— is reasonable.
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`A number of trials wil'
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`follow it you want
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`to change the regimen.
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`So let's say I want
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`to
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`give intermittent dosing rather than a single
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`large bolus, daily times five, or a —— another
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`regimen, and it could be, you know,
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`variation.
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`But it builds on wha' you've learned
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`from the Phase l trial. And tha"s called a
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`Phase lb trial.
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`And those,
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`in fact, can lead to drug
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`approval.
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`There are many examples now of drugs
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`that go through a very shortened development
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`phase because suddenly we understand who to give
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`the drug to.
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`And it's called Phase lb and then
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`it leads into an early Phase 2 or you may not
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`need the Phase 2.
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`Q.
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`As you sit here today, can you identi:
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`any publication, pre—June of ’999,
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`that defines
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`or refers to what you are calling a Phase Lb
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`trial?
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`A.
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`I'm —— I'm certain I can find the
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`protocols which describe Phase lb trials. Yes.
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`Q.
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`Is there anything in your declaration,
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`:
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`those papers cite those protocols?
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`—— I don't
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`remember.
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`I don't know i:
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`the issue came up.
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`Q.
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`And was —— as of June o:
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`there any definition of Phase lb
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Oh,
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`I'm sure.
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`—— on the Nil website?
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`A. Well,
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`I don‘: know.
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`I can't tell you.
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`:'s a rather large question,
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`isn't
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`{I1OW.
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`Is that a term that
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`the NZ
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`Yes.
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`I used it.
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`You used it.
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`Q A
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`.
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`Q
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`A.
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`All my people, all people that worked
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`me used it.
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`Q.
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`Was
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`that a '
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`rinition that
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`the
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`was
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`the person that set
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`the standard,
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`MR. GROSSMAN: Counsel,
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`just —— just
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`‘or the record, you're required at a deposition
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`when you introduce a document
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`like this to cure
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`any objections.
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`I've objected to i- jor the
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`grounds I stated earlier.
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`You didn't cure it,
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`so
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`we reserve the right
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`to strike —— to strike all
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`testimony concerning the document.
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`QY MR. GA%R C:
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`Q.
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`So could you summarize your expertise
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`with antifolates?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`In l969 I went
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`to —— into the
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`laboratory at Yale, worked with a Dr. Joseph
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`3ertino, who was one o:
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`the leading people in
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`terms o: understanding the mechanism or action o:
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`anLi_ola-es and methotrexate, which is one o.
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`firs- an_ifolaLes.
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`And I worked on a projec
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`develop a bacterial enzyme that would cleave
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`folates and would produce fola-e deficiency.
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`we did it, we
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`took a Pseudomonas etzyme, pirified
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`it, wor<ed with the people to New England Enzyme
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`Center to produce large quantities of
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`the enzyme
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`and them actually gave it to patients.
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`It was
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`one of
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`-he firs- —— I
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`think it may have been the
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`first examp'e o‘
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`an exogenous enzyme given to a
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`human for treating a —— a disease.
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`The people I worked with went on _o found
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`Genzyme, which is —— I was sad to see them leave
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`the project.
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`The drug actually proved to be
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`useful
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`in dealing with methotrexate toxicity,
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`because it cleaves folates. And it's now
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`approved for clinical use for that use.
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`Q. Methotrexate?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`No.
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`The enzyme.
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`The enzyme?
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`Yes.
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`It's called glucarpidase. And
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`after that,
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`I went
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`to WZH.
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`I was working on that
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`specific project at NIT.
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`%ut
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`worked on a lot
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`of other projects rela-ed -o antifolates,
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`including pharmacokinetics, high—dose
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`pharmacokinetics and how it related to the
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`toxicity we were seeing with high—dose
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`methotrexate.
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`developed a monitoring system that was
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`used to tol'ow patients and to predict toxicity.
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`We discovered the mechanism o: renal damage
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`related to methotrexate and developed a regimen
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`o: alkalinization and hydration that prevented
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`that —— that toxicity.
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`It's a rather complicated
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`regimen, and the toxicity was overwhelming in
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`some patients.
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`And so it was a very useful
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`measure.
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`We also studied the interac— —— the
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`interrelationship o_ me-hoLrexate and reduced
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`‘olates that were used for rescue and established
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`the principle that this was a reciprocal —— not a
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`reciprocal, but a competitive relationship.
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`We studied the process o: polyglutamation o:
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`antifolates and showed that
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`the polyglutamation
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`led to enhancement o_ acLivi-y against
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`thymidylate synthase and some o:
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`the other purine
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`enzymes.
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`And we conducted some studies with
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`antifolates in people, one of which led to the
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`approval of a new antijolate jor treating
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`pneumocystis pneumonia, which was occurring in
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`A )8 patients.
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`And that's —— that's pretty much
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`the summary.
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`Q.
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`Than< you, Doctor.
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`So is it fair to say that
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`the bulk of your
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`hands—on research activity was with respect
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`to
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`methotrexate?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Most o:
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`And --
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`There were a few other antifolates that
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`we were interested in?
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`Did you do any hands—on research on
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`pemetrexed?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Hands—on, no.
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`And if " understand your tes
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`correctly, your work on methotrexate,
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`pre—June of '999?
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`A. Well,
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`the laboratory work was certainly
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`prior to l999.
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`I: was
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`l999 and below —— and
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`prior to that.
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`I: was probably mostly l995
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`— and earlier.
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`Q.
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`And is it fair to say that toxicity was
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`a concern with respect
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`to methotrexate?
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`A.
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`Oh, it's always a concern with all the
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`cancer drugs.
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`We were fortunate that, because we
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`understood a good deal about it and had ways o:
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`using antidotes and the enzyme that
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`I described,
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`that we could —— we could actually manipula'
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`methotrexate much better than some o:
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`the o
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`drugs that we were working with.
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`Q.
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`And so as of June of
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`l999,
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`toxicity was
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`also a concern with respect
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`to pemetrexed as
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`well?
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`A.
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`Yes, it was. Yeah.
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`pemetrexed was mainly in the ha
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`that
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`time, not with the NCI.
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`Q.
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`Now,
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`I'm looking at your CV.
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`Let me back up for a second. While you were
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`doing your work on me_ho_rexate, it sounds like
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`you have a fair amoun- o_ research experience in
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`that area.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I would say so, yes.
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`All right.
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`And did you make it your
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`practice to stay abreast o:
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`the relevant
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`publications in that area?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I tried.
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`It would be important
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`to keep abreast
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`o_
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`-he important publications in that area so
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`that you knew what was going on with respect
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`to
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`And I had a more general interest
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`in this because I was writing textboo
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`So did you make an e
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`monitor the publications in the area o:
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`methotrexate prior to June of l999?
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`A. Well, of course. Yes.
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`Q.
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`Now, you have a heck o:
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`publications listed on your CV.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Most of --
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`Seventy or so.
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`Most o:
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`them are authentic, yes.
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`And so is it fair to say,
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`I'm not going
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`to ask you to count
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`them all, but
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`I mean,
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`ballpark, you have about 200 peer—reviewed
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`publications --
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`A. Well --
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`Q.
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`A.
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`—— does that SOJDd about right?
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`It's —— it's not really complete in the
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`sense that
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`the system in the university where
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`am segregates publications into chapters, books,
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`editorials and so jor-h so that
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`they don't all
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`count.
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`But
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`there are probably, you know,
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`in the
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`200s in terms o: peer—reviewed publications in
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`journals, yes.
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`Those are the ones that
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`the
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`university cares about, because when they look at
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`for promotion,
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`that's where they really look.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Publish or perish,
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`I
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`think is the term?
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`Publish in peer—reviewed journals, yes.
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`haven't perished.
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`Q.
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`No, you haven't,
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`thankfully.
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`Now, do you have —— currently have an active
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`practice?
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`A.
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`I have —— my primary role is clinical
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`research, mentoring young faculty, attending
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`patient conferences and helping in making
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`decisions about patients through conferences, and
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`then a brief period o_ a--ending during the year
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`in the medical service at Mass. General.
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`I'm a
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`medical attending on the inpatient service there.
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`Yes.
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`And maybe of all the things I do,
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`I enjoy
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`that
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`the most.
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`Q.
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`And if it's varied, you can let me
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`know, but
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`in the last five years, about what
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`percentage of your time is devoted to