"The show works because it's for the common man, " says Crorepati producer Anita Kaul Basu.
Dr. Kaul, based at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says the rat issue didn't figure significantly in his vote.
Dr. Kaul is an internationally recognized heart researcher renowned for developing microbubble-based myocardial contrast echocardiography for the early detection of coronary heart disease.
Samir Kaul, a founding general partner at Khosla Ventures, one of the premier cleantech venture firms, says investors likely will have done their homework out of necessity.
Starr and Kaul will co-lead the OHSU Knight Cardiovascular Institute.
India's airlines struggle to make a profit, mostly because of high costs of imported jet fuel, said Kapil Kaul, an analyst at the India office of Sydney-based CAPA-Centre for Aviation.
"It is a distortion of the scientific process when a company releases data only under media duress or fear of congressional inquiry, " says Sanjay Kaul of Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
According to Kapil Kaul, chief executive, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation India, the number of airline passengers is expected to grow nearly four-fold from 123 million to 450 million by 2020.
Another investor wrote to Dr. Kaul, the panelist, politely suggesting that, "to hear the scuttlebutt going around, " the panelists incorrectly assumed a risk to humans after some rats on lorcaserin developed tumors.
"It's a good thing everybody is allowed to have their say, but the FDA has to do its job, " said heart-disease expert Sanjay Kaul, who served as an FDA adviser and voted against lorcaserin.
The advisory committee meeting will undoubtedly feature some heated discussion, especially since both Steve Nissen, the noted industry skeptic, and Sanjay Kaul, a tough critic of clinical trials, will be members of the panel.
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But only a quarter of patients take it when prescribed, says Sanjay Kaul of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, because of an annoying but relatively harmless side effect: Niacin makes people turn beet red and feel unpleasantly hot.
"AirAsia will initially start on a low-scale but once they scale up their operations, I would expect them to be a formidable competitor in India, " said Kapil Kaul, the South Asia chief executive at aviation consultancy CAPA-Centre for Aviation.
Sanjay Kaul, a cardiologist at Cedars Sinai Hospital in L.A. who has been an FDA consultant, says the FDA should now require all cholesterol medicines to either do a big study showing they prevent heart problems before approval or only grant conditional approval and then demand the big study.
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Fund manager Rajiv Kaul has focused on a handful of relatively new companies, including high-speed router maker Juniper Net (nasdaq: JUNI) at 8.98% of holdings, semiconductor manufacturer JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) at 6.09% and optical networking vendor Sycamore Networks (nasdaq: SCMR - news - people) at 3.14%.
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