NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[flipper44]

Ok Doc, I think your prediction that this anticipated announcement is near at hand is becoming more legit, because of the obvious ramifications of having selected the automated version to move forward on.

Linda Powers

Well, that's a big thing. And it can take as much as 30 hours of a qualified person to release a product. So we started more than 3 years ago, okay, not weeks, not months, we started more than 3 years ago with [Advent ] and working on arrangement to develop ways that the product release process could be automated or at least partially automated. So as to not have a bottleneck on this and be ready for scale up.

And (as of December 2022) we're not ready to make an announcement yet, but suffice it to say that's been an area of a big amount of work and a big amount of focus. And we haven't talked about it because we weren't at the stage yet to have something completed. But there's a lot of things that we work on behind the scenes that are forward looking of what do we have to be ready for a year from now, 2 years from now, 3 years from now, because with the time lines involved, if we need something 2 years from now, we have to start today.

And this product release system has been more than 3 years already so far. — December 30, 2022.