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However, as you can imagine, they can receive compensation as consultants to industry.

Q:

Exactly. And they'll never lack for clients.

Lasker:

Anybody that is in this world class science will not lack for some modest remuneration.

Q:

Yes, but how generous of them!

Lasker:

I think that is really being a big sport don't you? I don't know that I would have been that generous. However, they did it. At any rate, I see that their work was developed in the '70s. It was financed by the National Institutes of Health largely.

Q:

Well, good.

Lasker:

Thank God all these struggles have not been in vain all these years.

Q:

No.

Lasker:

I always thought that some people somewhere were going to find out something that we didn't know about and that would be a payoff. And that's actually what happened, because an awful lot





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