Mark Emalfarb
Analyst · Princeton Opportunity Partners
Well, we delivered partially what they asked for, for sure. In fact, we delivered a vaccine that we expect -- or expected that they would put in the mice and we would find out the answer as to the immunogenicity, reproducibility, and I don't know that they will or won't still put that -- won't purify it and it put in into mice. So that's part of our next 60 days, is between now and October 5, discussions of what they are going to do, what they're not going to do, what we feel they're obligated to do, what we feel that they should do, what we can maybe do that they don't do. Those are all ongoing discussions. But I think that we believe, and as we mentioned, that this was a decision that was made not by the people that are working day to day with C1 at Sanofi, the people that we believe believe in it and that's what they've told us, it was a decision made for a variety of reasons. And I think the least or the lesser of the reasons was whether they believed that ultimately C1 could actually deliver on this particular vaccine. But this vaccine was a unique, very difficult project that they gave us, that, you know, there's a lot of other things that we could have had that are much, much easier. And if this was, for example, a cancer vaccine and you needed to make one strain and you use that same strain over and over again for a decade or 20 years to make this cancer vaccine, we made enough of a vaccine, and with that vaccine and encouraging results, would have taken it in the phase one and potentially then into a phase two and phase three, but in this particular indication that's not quite how that seemed to work. So I unfortunately can't share with you the indication. At some point Sanofi may let us, but I doubt it.