Living Proof Page #2

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Bye.

Bye, Lilly. Thank you.

Alright.

You heard her, let's get back to work.

- I'm sorry, I was trying not to wake you.

- That was thoughtful.

But I couldn't sleep after you promised

to be home 5 hours ago and never showed up.

The specimen refrigerator broke

and I... I didn't have

- I am so not done.

- Sorry.

An hour-long recital.

I reminded you today, yesterday.

I even put Jamie on the case.

- I did everything but drive you there myself.

- I had to do the transfer myself.

- Your daughter was expecting you.

- There was no one I could call.

It's my work. If anything happened,

- I'd have to start over.

- Start all over. I know.

I knew when I married you what I was in for,

But they just want their daddy there.

Not everytime. But sometimes.

- I'll make it up to her on Sunday.

- That would be good.

Okay. I'm officially over it.

- You sure?

- Yeah

Because you know I'm gonna kiss you now.

You smell good.

You, well not so good.

So how was she?

Honestly, she was the best sunflower

I think I've ever seen.

You know why? She gets that from you.

You weren't really waiting up for me,

were you?

No, I fell asleep reading.

And, no offense,

but I really wanna get back.

And you won't mind if I go for a run?

Cause I'm not gonna have

time in the morning.

- Yeah. That's not gonna happen.

- Saw that happening.

Okay, I didn't wanna run anyway.

- You've done that a thousand times.

- Well that's what science is.

But what exactly are you doing?

- I showed you the plan.

- No, you didn't.

That's the plan. Step one is discovery.

That's a one in a million shot

Linking the HER-2 protein

with cell growth in breast tissue.

I did that right here in this lab.

Step two is to create

a drug from HER-2.

That's where we are right now.

I'm doing some of that work right here.

And they're doing the

rest of that at Genentech.

- And that's the drug company.

- Right

- It's a biotech company open in

the Bay Area. - And biotech is...

Is looking for medicines

based on molecular biology.

Step three is the mouse

protein experiment.

I'll explain more about that

when we get a little bit closer.

Steps four, five and six are

the FDA clinical drug trials.

To see if the drug works

and how well it works.

Which will lead us to step seven, the

Holy Grail, our drug is approved.

San Francisco

GENENTECH HEADQUARTERS

Hey Blake. Blake. You're not

gonna believe this new data.

I was trying to catch you before

you go on the plane. I got some bad news.

Okay. How much are they

cutting up budget this time?

I'm sorry, Denny.

Board's decided not to continue with HER-2.

You did not just say that.

They think cancer research

just carries too much risk.

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