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<v ->We need to start getting our manufacturing processes</v>

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together from early on.

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And I think that makes sense for gene therapies

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because gene therapies are not small molecules.

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There is some scientific basis that makes you think

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that there's a higher probability than average of success

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that you'll end up at the end of the process

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with something that works.

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So, as opposed to small molecules,

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the goal always was your first batches-

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you just want to save them.

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You didn't want to spend a lot of money

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because you knew that there was this pretty small chance

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that those initial development lots

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were going to end up never needing

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to turn into production processes.

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And so with gene therapies,

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it may be that it goes back to having things right

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from the beginning.

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If we had essentially a cookbook for how you do things

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early on so that they transfer to later on,

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that might really help us move things forward.

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And so I think they kind of have a connection

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between what we learned in COVID-19

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and this issue of what we can do to help

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the technology transfer.