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was also on that call, so I thought he was on it, as well.
He may not have been.
MS. SALAZAR: Francis Collins?
DR. BARIC: Yeah, I think he was there.
MS. SALAZAR: Okay. And you don't know how it was
organized.
DR. BARIC: No.
MS. SALAZAR: Do you have a relationship with Jeremy
Farrar?
DR. BARIC: No.
MS. SALAZAR: Have you ever spoken with him prior to
the call?
DR. BARIC: If I did it was a one-off event or an
email or something, but it's not somebody I would normally
communicate with.
MS. SALAZAR: Okay. So on the February 3rd call,
which is the National Academies call, you did speak in that
call. Correct?
DR. BARIC: Mm-hmm.
MS. SALAZAR: And you had, you know, confrontations --
I think that's how Kristian Andersen --
DR. BARIC: Is this the Kristian Andersen conference?
MS. SALAZAR: Yeah, I don't want to misspeak, but I
think that's generally how he described it, and someone
will hand me a paper so I can correct the record if I'm
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