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Q:

I see.

Lasker:

And they got it.

Q:

And what about Portland? How did they get interested?

Lasker:

Oh, no. Wisconsin is getting the Cantell material to try on patients. Portland wants to make it. It's a big blood bank that wants to make it.

Q:

How do they get --?

Lasker:

They don't have to get it. They have blood. They have white cells. All they have to do is to use the Cantell technique to make interferon with the white cells.

Q:

The Finnish system.

Lasker:

Yes.

Q:

How did they happen to get interested in doing this?

Lasker:

Well, the publicity that was generated as a result of the American Cancer Society's gift got them interested in it.

Q:

What about your original gift?

Lasker:

Well, that triggered the Cancer Society's gift, so I suppose indirectly the whole thing was triggered by our gift.

But the Cancer Society gift was very important, because it got a lot of space, and interested many people. A very important conference, with people from 26 countries, coming to an interferon conference, was organized by Mrs. (Dr.) Krim at the Rockefeller University in April. And people were bringing information from all over, from all over this country and from other countries -- everybody with little pieces of information, but all existing, all favorable.





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