VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

shift: 班

wording: 措辞; 用词

tailor-made: customized

guideline:指南

new therapies: innovative medicine

fraud: 伪劣品; 冒牌货

Speaking exercise

Q: “What are your hours right now?”

I will be off-work the next day’s 5pm if I’m not busy. That is, I must go on working 30 hours. continue working.

Q: What can you tell me about this company? And our drugs?
A: The company new targeted drugs about immune therapy. It is just like CAR-T cells. Firstly, you get the T-cells from the patients, then you use the lentivirus and change the genome of the T-cells so the T-cells is more reactive to fight the cancer cells. I think it is a very promising drugs. Because there are many patients are not invalid to the routine therapy. And maybe the targeted drugs the last hope. They may prolong their lives and give them better lives. So it is an exciting if I donate my efforts in the development of the new drugs.

A: The company develops new targeted drugs for immunotherapy, such as …. It is just like the CAR-T cell therapy. Firstly, you get/extract the T-cells from the patients, then you use the lentivirus and change the genome of the T-cells so the T-cells is more reactive to fight the cancer cells. I think it is a very promising drug/new form of medicine/innovation in the field of medicine. Because there are many patients do not respond well to routine therapy. So targeted therapy is their last hope. These drugs may help patients prolong their lives and give them better life quality. So it is exciting/extremely fulfilling for me/valuable if I can /So I sincerely hope to contribute my efforts to the development of the new drugs.

The drugs this pharmaceutical company not yet. So it doesn’t have a price yet.
The drugs are not in market yet, so it doesn’t have a price./so its price is not set.

It’s not my work to give the drug price. My job is do the clinical trial and maybe enrolled the patients and know about the safety and effectiveness of the drug.
It’s not my work to set the drug price./I’m not concerned with its price/The price is not my main concern. My job is to do/doing the clinical trials and maybe enrol the patients and learn about/find out/specify the safety and effectiveness of the drug.

If you first diagnosed as a disease..
At first, if you’re diagnosed with a disease/as a cancer patient…

Pronunciation

pharmaceutical: far-ma-su-ti-cal