Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 37

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com met him. He was at Peking University, and said he'd be glad to share his mice with us. And so we started to do the paperwork, but the Chinese government never allowed it to go through, so the whole thing crashed. So from what I hear from other researchers, it's not an uncommon problem. MS. SALAZAR: But that paper had been published. DR. BARIC: That's correct. MS. SALAZAR: For years. Five years. DR. BARIC: Yes. Well, no. Yes. Well, I'm talking in the range of around 2006 or 2007. I'm giving you an example of what sort of barriers exist to get samples out of China. MS. SALAZAR: But the paper that we're discussing, it was 2015? DR. BARIC: It's 2015. That's correct. MS. SALAZAR: And so I guess it's just the Chinese government, I hear they monitor people a lot. They wouldn't have seen that Shi, I mean, Shi was published. It was public. DR. BARIC: How would I know? How would I know the answer to that question? MS. SALAZAR: Did you have discussions with her in that time frame about the paper? DR. BARIC: We certainly shared the preprint of the paper for her to comment on. And it said clearly in the