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So the way research grants work is that there are several aims, sub-aims. And research grants are always written in the context of being more fluid than contracts. So discoveries that you make in the context of doing the science may cause direction changes, which are then typically reported to the NIH, in your progress reports. So are you asking me if -- from how I just answered that, what's the context of the question?
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So if you were going to, you know, transfer any kind of biological material, would there DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com always be like a material transfer agreement?
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Oh, absolutely. Well --
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That may or may not --
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Ralph S. Baric
Yes.
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-- are there cases where there may not be?
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Well, sometimes for large program project grants there would be a universal MTA created among all of the researchers so that you can share reagents. That's one form. And the other form is somebody will call and ask you for reagents and you do an MTA agreement.
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Going back to --
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I would say that 99 percent of them were done as MTA agreements. There would probably be outliers, occasionally, but that would be on existing projects where collaborations exist through a grant, and reagents are needed to further the aims of the grant.