Michael Castagna
Management
Lots of questions on that – I think we wanted to show what every 10,000 patients equal, because, whether you want to assume it's 10,000, 25,000, 75,000, you can see this as a meaningful engine growth driver for MannKind and our shareholders. I think, any company who's going to have a billion dollar plus product wants to have a reliable, consistent and backup supply. So, we're fully supportive of UT build out of a second facility, because as you've been to Danbury. It's a wonderful facility. It's large. It can do a lot, but it's one facility. And so, I think if you really look at the future where UT is going, having a second facility come online as a backup, whether we're the backup or they're the backup, I think all that going to be years in the making. It's not going to, these things take five to seven years to build sometimes and certify. So, I think we've got time to worry about some of those details, but at the end of the day, there's definitely things we're doing in IPF on the scale up that could increase, the capacity within Danbury to more than meet the needs over the next three to five years. So, we feel very good about Danbury meeting current demand, UT having a backup facility or a second facility as they look at increasing global supply. It's all net-net positive for everybody and ensuring continuity of care. In terms of what MannKind will do with that excess capital coming in, I think you see we've been building a pipeline over the last four years in anticipation that Tyvasa would do well, MannKind would be able to self-fund R&D and ultimately launch it because believe me, we'd all be happier as shareholders and employees if the money coming out of the door every day to UT would go into MannKind. And I think that's one of the things we want to make sure we can do, whether it's NTM, it's [indiscernible]. These are real assets of real value that we've been building for the last three to four years. And will now finally be starting to enter patients and launching over the next three to five years. So, we're excited about the future and the capital deployment. And that's our number one job, is to make sure we are appropriately, deploying that capital to drive the best opportunities for growth. And you look at the company, we've done a lot when we didn't have a lot of capital. Now imagine what we could do to drive faster growth now that we do have adequate capital and that's what we're doing. We're taking a bet, for example, on INHALE-3. It's a small bet, but it's a big bet that you could show you're as good as an insulin pumper better. We couldn't take those types of bets, but that's how you're going to really change the future trajectory for the company.