Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions). And your first question comes from the line of Kevin Jason [ph].
Kevin Jason
I guess that will be me, thanks a lot, guys.
Jonathan Lim
Thank you
Kevin Jason
Congratulations, nice quarter. Couple of things there, let’s talk about Baxter for a little bit here. Specifically I guess what are the plans here with Hylenex for the acute care market? Is that still priority for Baxter and kind of help us understand the roll out which continues to sort of work at is own pace, I suppose?
Jonathan Lim
Yes, the roll out actually as I said is actually starting. In the hospital environment, it is important to bring first of all the key teaching centers on board in terms of formulary access, keeping in lead, advocacy of the technology, and that is currently happening. As I mentioned, the 50 patient pediatric study was recently completed, it’s being submitted as we speak for publication. And as soon as the manuscript is published and in the hands of the sales force, a fuller roll out will happen into the community hospitals, a much greater roll out during next year. So the first wave of sales people are trained, they are in the field today, and Baxter will continue to ramp up during 2009, with a significant launch as soon as the B21 [ph] study is published.
Kevin Jason
At the risk of getting ahead of ourselves, can you explain to us a little more clearly what the current selling effort behind Hylenex looks like by Baxter because it’s not showing up in your P&Ls? I think we are all expecting and hoping for a ramp here on the product, but I need is there – what are the sales people out in the field doing? I understand the value of published data to come, but I mean help us get a little bit more comfortable that there is a ramp up to come on this product, and help us understand where we are today?
Jonathan Lim
Yes. Initially in most of these hospitals, we have to first of all get onto the formulary and that process has started both with a group of dedicated pediatric sales people as well as Baxter assigning their existing contract account teams across the country into major hospitals. And in the hospital environment, that can sometimes take three to six months to actually go to a P&T committee, get formulary access, provide the data, get funding before they actually start ordering. So, we are starting to see this process now ramping up, and will culminate as I said with the publication of the clinical data in the second half of next year, following which then there should be a full ramp up in the second half of 2009. That’s when we will start to really see some numbers appearing.
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