EPF

I am subscribed to lots of email mailing lists, including one about health from ABC Online. Recently there was this item:

BRISBANE RESEARCHERS BATTLE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE (PM: 21/8/2001)
Most autoimmune system diseases are rare - some very rare - but there are many such diseases, and the overall numbers of sufferers is huge. Now there's a development that Brisbane researchers say has the potential to change the lives of millions of those sufferers around the world.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/s350205.htm

Two things caught my attention: "autoimmune" and "Brisbane". "Autoimmune" was referring to things such as MS, and the reference to Brisbane put me in mind of a conversation I had with a Brisbane researcher a couple of years ago about MS, but at that stage it was animal trials.

I searched Alta Vista for EPF and found a document from 1998 about EPF (the layout is hard to read - I've re-formatted the text here). There was a phone number, so I rang it. One of the researchers answered the phone. Things have advanced a fair bit, they have formed a company called CBio with an embryonic website. Yes, they were working on MS, yes. they would probably be doing trials in 18 months. And I was invited to leave my name & phone number.

And yes, I did.

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