This ones for you ,OPC....:o)

"You can't keep funding companies indefinitely," acknowledges Carla Mann Woods, his daughter and a deputy at Advanced Bionics for 12 years. But she thinks that Mannkind is far from finished. "My father has very thick skin. He's in it for the long game and to do something great."

"Joseph Schulman, a scientist who has worked for Mann for 40 years in different capacities, says that at all his early companies Mann had to make major midcourse corrections to save them from dying. "He's been on the verge of failure a dozen times and always pulls back from the cliff," Schulman says."

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1206/focus-al-man-medicine-fda-inhaler-diabetes-last-stand.html