Acknowledgements

I am grateful to my colleagues Duncan Low at Amgen and Stuart Builder at Strategic Biodevelopment, for reading the manuscript and for their helpful suggestions and encouragement. This work was supported by ProMetic BioTherapeutics, Inc.

JOHN CURLING is president of John Curling Consulting AB, Uppsala, Sweden, and is senior advisor to ProMetic BioTherapeutics, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA, +46.18 290620, john@consultcurling.se
He is also a member of BioPharm International's Editorial Advisory Board.

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