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Posted by Scott King on 12:06:31 2004/08/05
In Reply to: Encapsulation posted by Allen
"I can only speak for myself here....I must say that encapsulation seems to be the way to go."
I agrree entirely, and published the same conclusion in 1980 after spending a year studing the future of diabetes therapy when I was a research analyst on Wall Street.
"What I am not clear on (and perhaps it would help your efforts) is....what would it take? If you had the resources, how long?"
Microencapsuled islet should have been on the market 5 years ago. The reason they are not relates to bad management of most of the companies.
If CercoMed were well funded, I believe that we would be in clinical studies in 2 years and on the market 3-4 years after than (FDA dependent).
"I have heard a lot of complaints about this-and-that and lack of funding and such (not necessarily you), but I have not heard anyone say, "We need X $'s and believe strongly that our protocols will be viable as a cure/treament for T-1 within Y years. I can't shoot it if I can't see it!"
Money needed for accomplishment:
CercoMed profitable: $50 million
CercoMed to clinical trials: $12 million
CercoMed has data sufficient to convince worst skeptic: $4 million
CercoMed has data to convince Cognoscenti (e.g., Shapiro/Lakey): $750,000.
"My apologies if answers to my rantings have been discussed here before. I haven't been here too long."
No, I love concrete questions.
SCOTT KING
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