GG et al: Thrombomodulin is a bona fide competitor in DIC/sepsis. The private company developing it is Artisan Pharma, which is based in Framingham, Massachusetts of all places and has a Japanese connection. They just raised $39M in a Series A private placement: <A HREF="http://www.artisanpharma.net/pressReleasepdf.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.artisanpharma.net/pressReleasepdf.pdf</A> p.s. This is the link to the abstract you posted last week: <A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17059423&query_hl=4&itool=pubmed_docsum" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&l...</A> Dew