Peter tried not to read anything into the hand on his shoulder. It didn't mean anything more than Sascha sitting in his lap. But of course, Rory's touch sent a warm tingle down his arm and back up to run along the side of his neck, forcing Peter to repress a pleasant shudder. "Yeah, years from now. Long schooling is long."
More dimpled smiling as he nodded that yes, a second drink would be appreciated as the waitress made her rounds, then he cleared his throat to answer the singer's question. "Good. Well, depending on which project you're talking about and what we are going to qualify as 'good' while talking about one ugly, vicious disease."
Peter loved his work, his research and even the patients that were part of his case studies but he rarely considered the subject matter party conversation. Either he took a far too academic bent to avoid the emotional or he was honest and depressed a lot of people. "We're starting clinical trials to see how well some tumor reactive T cells we created react to certain targeted proteins in patients with lymphoid leukemias. Basically, I've been screening prospective patients for the study."
He stopped there before anyone got that glazed and confused look.
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Date: 2009-01-04 03:00 am (UTC)More dimpled smiling as he nodded that yes, a second drink would be appreciated as the waitress made her rounds, then he cleared his throat to answer the singer's question. "Good. Well, depending on which project you're talking about and what we are going to qualify as 'good' while talking about one ugly, vicious disease."
Peter loved his work, his research and even the patients that were part of his case studies but he rarely considered the subject matter party conversation. Either he took a far too academic bent to avoid the emotional or he was honest and depressed a lot of people. "We're starting clinical trials to see how well some tumor reactive T cells we created react to certain targeted proteins in patients with lymphoid leukemias. Basically, I've been screening prospective patients for the study."
He stopped there before anyone got that glazed and confused look.