Cameron, the Mayo Clinic is heavily involved in many clinical trials. I suspect they are able to support Dr.K with a large part of the trial process, which he is unfamiliar with. They probably worked together on the protocol, risk analysis, and monitoring procedures. Mayo probably already has the trial managers, software, and doctors, in place to handle the monitoring process. That is a huge amount to take off of Dr.Ks plate. Mayo wants to protect their patients, foremost, so they had to work with Dr.K to establish the patient population inclusion specs, i.e. ages, severity, number of patients, etc. and then define human treatment practices.
Very exciting stuff.