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(inspiring music plays)

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<v ->Peter, we learned a lot about different</v>

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cell and gene therapy from the COVID vaccine efforts.

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What other lessons are you taking away from this?

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<v ->So, thanks.</v>

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I think there were probably two.

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One is that early and often communication

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with the agency on products really helps.

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I mean, that is what helped with vaccines, cell therapies,

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even convalescent plasma. All of those things

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where we had a dialogue that happened in near real time

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made a big difference on avoiding issues in manufacturing,

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clinical development,

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and it really helped those products move forward quickly.

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Now there's obviously a challenge

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in sustaining the staff needed to do that,

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but I think in the gene therapy area,

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it's really critical that we do so,

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because I think that could make the difference between

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really having us bolt forward, leap forward quickly,

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or kind of remain at kind of a crawling pace forward.