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notified me that they are going to put two million dollars into the purchase of interferon, and I'm sure that the National Cancer Institute will wake up and find that they can buy or develop interferon too.

Q:

Yes. Now, you put up this money?

Lasker:

I put up this money, as a result of --

Q:

What was involved in the purchase?

Lasker:

You mean, how much money?

Q:

Yes.

Lasker:

Well, I've already spent two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and I've promised to spend about another five hundred and fifty. Now, it may be that they will pay for the remaining -- I don't have to spend another five hundred and fifty.

It may be that the Cancer Society will pay for the whole remaining amount because they've already voted two million dollars. They got going with the idea that it shouldn't be an individual like me that should have to do this, in order to find out what the parameters of the effectiveness of this non-toxic agent that has some effect on cancer is.

Well, of course, they're right, but they should have been doing this since the last five years, let's say.

However, it's certainly started something in the interferon business that will be -- we'll know more a year from now.





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