Tony Hunt
Analyst · Stifel.
Okay. Yes, so maybe I'll start with the progression. I would say most of our growth will come from the accounts that have been seated over the last few years. So it's not that we get into a single process at a gene therapy account. I like every everybody else in bioprocessing, we're looking to get platforms, so you pick up new drugs as they come through the pipeline. So for sure, I think when you look at our top accounts, they continue to grow. They continue to expand, the idea with our commercial team, if you remember a year ago, we put a gene therapy, go to market team in place, that team has done a tremendous job. They work with the sales people, they work with the field applications, folks. And that's what you know, we focus on in terms of bringing new accounts online, we don't expect that those new accounts will add a tremendous amount of revenue in the first year. But it's all around seeding and keeping the funnel filled up. And I think from that perspective, I think we've done a good job. The second part of this is, is really around, building out our gene therapy, applications labs. So we're in the middle of doing that right now. So when we get into kind of late summer timeframe, we'll be up and running fully functional. So that'll give us the balance of being able to work with key accounts with, top leaders in the space, but also be able to do our own gene therapy applications work here in Repligen. The first part of the question, I believe, was around the gene therapy project evaluations. Yes. I would say that, there's still some restrictions, but nothing like what we were dealing with in sort of Q2, Q3 last year, I think the field applications team sales team have really figured out a way to work with all our accounts. While it's not ideal, we're definitely doing evaluations. And we're making progress. And so, our expectation is that we need to keep building the funnel with new opportunities. I think the challenge we have and everybody in our industry has right now is that, when you look at the COVID demand, which is really strong, you have to balance, the delivery of products to, to the COVID vaccine therapeutic accounts, and also working with the non-COVID accounts to get product to them as well. So that's the idea of adding our extra capacity is that we're going to be able to shorten lead times for the non-COVID accounts as well.