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Improvement in Primary Clinical Endpoint<br />

“But “But it it works works in in<br />

rodents…”<br />

Constrained by Human Data Rodent-<br />

Like Human<br />

Adriano M Henney PhD<br />

Rodent<br />

Data<br />

Alternative Hypothesis<br />

• Limited data to support<br />

• Possible and testable<br />

System pushed to limits of human<br />

behavior<br />

• Constrained to the edges of normal<br />

clinical response<br />

• Numerous validation protocols no longer<br />

reproducible<br />

• Unlikely, but testable<br />

Impact<br />

1) Company stopped compound<br />

development >1year before competitor<br />

Observed Phenotypes<br />

Target pathway “retuned” to Rodent<br />

Behavior<br />

•Pathway capacity increased<br />

–Inconsistent with human data<br />

•Pathway feedback regulation altered<br />

–Inconsistent with human data<br />

•Relative contribution of redundant<br />

pathways<br />

–Inconsistent with human data<br />

•Lifestyle/environmental factors<br />

–Not representative of humans

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