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02/28/13 9:38 AM

#157639 RE: ghmm #157636

NIH Webcast:

I am a big Astrue fan so I am biased watching but he had a great anecdotal story about the TKT (now Shire) Hunter drug. Talking to an FDA official about the requirements for getting the drug approved and the official says something ridiculus about number of patients needed (relative to # patients in developed world). So Astrue goes OK give me that in writing because as a public company I have to tell our shareholders why we are ending development of the drug. Astrue goes on to say "Fortunately, He blinked" (The drug is now approved).