Yolanda and Shy:

I want to thank you both personally and on behalf of Cubist for your rapid turnaround and assistance today. While I'm glad we resolved this internally, it was an enourmous comfort that Datafarm came to the plate so quickly.

We will develop the paperwork on Monday so that a contract can be put into place and you may invoice us for your time. I will write it broader than just this one-time service so we can include Datafarm in future considerations for next year.

You should know that a colleague called her own contacts at a competitor of yours, and they said they could only help us after 3-4 days to put all paperwork in place.

Great job and I hope we can work things out to collaborate more substantially in the future.

Regards,

Dave

David S. Mantus, Ph.D.
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Cubist Pharmaceuticals