This is followed by an afternoon of established names including China Crisis, Amsterdam and John Head from Shack, finishing with a set by 1960s group The Merseybeats.

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After Cordaptive was rejected, Merck canceled a trial of the drug run by the same outside scientist--John Kastelein of the University of Amsterdam--who ran the Vytorin trial.

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In an interview Friday, John Kastelein of the University of Amsterdam, the lead outside scientist conducting the trial, says he was not consulted about the timeline or the press release before it was issued.

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John Kastelein, the University of Amsterdam researcher who conducted the studies with Isis, says that if physicians eventually get to add 301012 to their arsenal, it will be possible to get "virtually anyone" to the aggressively low cholesterol goals that have been set by government-organized committees.

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Researcher Dr John Kastelein, from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, said the only side effect of the drug was some mild stomach problems.

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John Kastelein, a cardiologist at the University of Amsterdam who is conducting a separate set of imaging studies of arteries in the neck, says that if torcetrapib removes plaque from the arteries over the course of two years in three different studies, it may still present a very compelling clinical benefit for patients.

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John Kastelein of the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam was lead investigator of the ENHANCE study.

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For those patients, this drug could be "a potential lifesaver, " says John Kastelein, a professor of medicine at the University of Amsterdam who is running Isis's current trials.

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