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How to Kill a Proteo Company
Elis 18 is the name of the entity that got incorporated to become, eventually, if things went forward, maderna. Companies for us are like one to two million dollars, six months to 12 months, plus minus process. We need it to convince ourselves that we can actually make things and try them in animals and have them make protein. And so we did work on that in in small animals, mice. But by no means did our preliminary analysis suggest that we should do vaccines, let alone only vaccines. The reason was because our dream, our imagin nation, had us making any protein in the body. So we were working on cancer, and we were dreaming of cardivascular