Gregory M. Glenn
Analyst · MLV & Company
Yes, absolutely. As we have followed many investigators who have shown that neuraminidase is an independent factor in protection against influenza disease, so the -- I think there has been, in the field, a struggle to measure neuraminidase content on the vaccine and then secondly, to accurately measure the anti-neuraminidase antibodies in human subjects that have been vaccinated. So we -- one of our geniuses, Dr. Fries, who spent 10 years doing lab work at the NIH and by that, I mean, at the bench doing assays, he and his team have, I think, cracked that problem, so we now have an assay for evaluating the content of neuraminidase in the surface of the vaccine and then measuring the antibody response that we see after vaccination. And as you may remember, a recent H7N9 trial, we have very high anti-neuraminidase antibodies that we measure after vaccination going from unmeasurable to 97%, 100% of the subjects have good, strong, measurable responses. So that's, I think, one of the very exciting things that we've seen in our program through the pandemic vaccination, is the production of robust neuraminidase antibodies. I think, again, somebody asked earlier what people at conferences think about this. I think when we have a chance to talk about our H7N9 data, this is clearly one factor in our program that many investigators think is a significant advance [ph]. And we would expect it to manifest itself positively when we move into the efficacy trials. And we, of course, preserve neuraminidase as an antigen on our seasonal vaccine as well. So it would be quite interesting when we get to the efficacy phase of our program because we think both hemagglutinin and neuraminidase antibodies are going to contribute to protection.
George B. Zavoico - MLV & Co LLC, Research Division: The various strains of the N1 through 9, they're not close enough to be -- for antibodies to be cross-reactive, so I mean, I'm wondering whether -- if some of these patients are seasonally vaccinated commercially, and then they get into the H7N9 trial, is there any chance of interference there? Probably not on the hemagglutinin, but I'm wondering about the neuraminidase because that doesn't mutate as much as the hemagglutinin.