Thats why I agree with Dr. Feelgood about not striking a deal with big pharma. If I were big pharma I would start building a relationship now, so I could get a better deal later. Smart would they be if they were to do this.
IMO, this all sounds like a different tune from what has been previously posted. It seems clear that some longs are willing to keep cutting NNVC slack for the many items that were previously expected.
On the note of tox tests, that has been an unfulfilled topic for years now and some of these Tox packages and IND were suppose to be in place now according to PRs from 2006 (perhaps 2005, I'm to lazy to look).