Don&#x27;t get me wrong: synthesizing compounds and expressing proteins is not that hard.  Those things can be done in a garage.  Extensive pharmacological testing in cultured cells and animals is much, much harder.  I respect what you&#x27;re doing, but you obviously know what GMP is and have some idea of what drug research entails, so to claim that a garage hackers could produce a drug candidate is disingenuous.  At our company, a drug candidate is something that has shown efficacy in animal pharmacology models and has gone through 13-week tolerability studies in animals appears safe.  And that&#x27;s all <i>before</i> GMP.