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Speaker 1: gains for the man U S savages today, with the

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Speaker 1: of healthcare. The giessue of drug pricing has been at

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Speaker 1: the history of the pharmaceutical industry. Only three percent of

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Speaker 1: focus on Bloomberg Radio. The Zica virus has been one

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Speaker 1: of the dark clouds hanging over the Olympics in Rio

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Speaker 1: de jan Narrow. In fact, the virus emerged there back

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Speaker 1: course now there are concerns that it will spread further

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Speaker 1: Enter Darnish Darnisia Grant Harrison. She's president and CEO of

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Speaker 1: an aid therapeutic She's based in Alfaretta, Georgia, joining us

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Speaker 1: in our studio today. Uh. She is the CEO of

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Speaker 1: a global pharmaceutical company that is developing anti viral drugs

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Speaker 1: to treat this Zeka virus. Not a moment too soon, Darnisia,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: what are you developing in particular? So we are actually

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Speaker 1: developing anti viral treatments. So these are actually drugs. Um.

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Speaker 1: We love to use one analogy. If your households on fire,

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Speaker 1: fire the fire department. So we are like the fire department.

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Speaker 1: When you get zekea virus, we would then put it out.

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Speaker 1: M vaccines, on the other hand, are much like fire inspectors. UM.

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Speaker 1: It sort of prevents you, um from getting Zeka virus.

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Speaker 1: What we have come to realize in the infectious diseases

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Speaker 1: developing and vaccines really play a complimentary role in helping

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Speaker 1: to control and ultimately eradicate diseases such as zeca. Now

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Speaker 1: need to know in order to understand more what is

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Speaker 1: a peptide inhibitor and connect the zekra virus to what

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Speaker 1: we know about dan gay fever, because I understand that

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Speaker 1: there is a connection. Yes, there is. So I'll start

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Speaker 1: infecting healthy cells within the body. Okay, So that answers

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Speaker 1: that question. Now the first question, what's a peptide and

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Speaker 1: what does it mean? Um? It's essentially a protein. Okay. Um,

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Speaker 1: you're normally a woman heading up a very exciting pharmaceutical company.

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Speaker 1: You're also the first African American woman in the world

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Speaker 1: to be founder, president, CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Microbiologist, scientist,

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Speaker 1: business development in a nutshell, how did you get here?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for asking, um, And I will qualify that

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Speaker 1: be politically correct here, but UM, you know, I majored

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Speaker 1: really deep passionate desire to have my own pharmaceutical company

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Speaker 1: and focus on early stage, promising science. It's a known

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Speaker 1: good scientific discoveries that could be used in human health

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Speaker 1: and animal health, but most companies don't focus there, and

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Speaker 1: that's where we differ. And eight Therapeutics is privately held.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little quickly about funding and also the pipeline.

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Speaker 1: Where are you in the testing of this work? Absolutely

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Speaker 1: so funding. We are essentially what we would call a

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Speaker 1: And we've done a very successful family and friends round

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Speaker 1: of funding UM having utilized with our rays right at

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Speaker 1: about one million dollars okay, and we've got some other

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Speaker 1: very aggressive activities going with funding now UM and we

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Speaker 1: man human trials by Q one. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for coming in and sharing all this information with us.

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Speaker 1: Darnisia Grant Harrison, the president and the chief executive of

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Speaker 1: an Aid Therapeutics. They're based in Alpharetta, Georgia. This is Bloomberg.

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