Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from Thomas J. Russo - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Thomas J. Russo - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Paul recognizing that there is a limited amount you can say with regard to your interactions with FDA and the SPA, can you just comment on whether there is any disagreement on the basic design that you laid out, I think in December and the co primary endpoints that you suggested?
Paul A. Friedman
The vast majority of what is in the SPA they have agreed with, we have some discussions going on about certain analysis and certain things that bear on the endpoints but we are in very good shape and what I do not want to do is lay out where we are in the discussions because I do not know for sure how it is going end up but we are very confident that we will be on our way to doing the registration study in the time frame that we originally laid out.
Thomas J. Russo - Robert W. Baird & Co.
At this point what would you expect in terms of enrollment to complete the enrollment for Phase III across all the sites that you mentioned earlier?
Paul A. Friedman
You mean in terms of time?
Thomas J. Russo - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Yes time to complete enrollment.
Richard Levy
Yes about 6 months.
Paul A. Friedman
Yes Rich just confirmed what we have said before. We think it would be about 6 months.
Thomas J. Russo - Robert W. Baird & Co.
Lastly can you comment on just some additional color on what kind of sales and marketing preparation work is in the plans for 2009 for 424 and myelofibrosis?
Paul A. Friedman
We just had come into the room our new Executive VP for Commercial Operations, Pat Andrews and so I will let her comment on that.
Pat Andrews
Good morning everyone. We have to build an infrastructure for in site to be able to successfully launch 424 and myelofibrosis and we have also have to do all of the standards marketing to prepare the market for that which includes a lot of market research. It includes identifying target audiences. It includes things along these lines. The infrastructure is a very important part, identifying vendors who will able to provide the services that we need. They are very cost effective way. Those will be the main plans that we are working on for 2009.
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