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“When we look at the opportunity of developing something for Neglected Tropical Diseases, as a rule we will try to make sure that we can recoup the investment, that we don’t lose money. That would be the rule. (…) That investment has also to be reasonable, it cannot be a huge investment so that is where partners come in to play. We fund part of the program and the partners another part, so that we can sell the proposal to our management.”—Priv1

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“We follow exactly the same process we are doing for each and every program. But (…) with this program we tend to be very pragmatic. Meaning, use what we have, don’t need to increase, looking maybe more about how can we use efficiently our resources.”—Priv2