So, those are our vocabulary words for the day. All right. So, make sure that you fill out your bingo card with every word that you think that Sher and I are going to say today. We do have some prizes. We do. If you need a pen, I have some pens, too. Yeah, me too. All right. Mr. McConey, can you bring Mr. Jagger and Miss Morola a microphone, please. Never mind. He has it in his hand. I'll take I'm not loud enough. I can't. He's coming out with another one. All right. Does anybody else need pens? That' be kind of hard to play bingo without a pen. Right. So, we're going to just take a minute, fill it out. What words do you think we're gonna say during this presentation and have a little fun? Sure. Of course. You can fill out whatever words that you think we're going to say back there.
So again it seems like what we're seeing here is the beginning or the opening the door to again addressing things that make us old. Yes. Yeah. It's uh you know we reach a certain age and we quit regenerating. We repair. Repair is fibrosis. Regenerating is you actually have a whole different it fixes it. It's all brand new. You know children tend to regenerate. That's why they don't have lasting scars uh of any note. the uh and that's what we're attempting to do is to turn back the immune response, you know, and I think that's correct. It's it what occurs is our own body kills us, you know, it uh it's a hyperactive response. Not too long ago, I had septic shock and uh you know, at my age, I should have been dead, but because that's the biggest cause of death of people in hospitals is is uh sepsis.
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Come on. I got I got Should we fill every space? Yeah. Fill every space. Okay. Thank you. Except for the free space in the middle. Exactly. I could see you're having fun already. I can see it in your faces. People are smiling. People are laughing. I see it. I see you. Normally that's not allowed at a board of education. That's why we push this back to May, you know, lightening the lighten the load a little bit. And that's why we brought a game. Right. I'm so glad you said that. Okay. So, we're going to give you like another minute to fill that out. There's plenty of words. There's definitely enough words. If there isn't, I'm going to leave. Sweet. You do. You do. You totally do. We got the party. We're going to give you another 20 seconds and then we're going to get the party started.
So that's what killed everybody with COVID was sepsis, which is the body's immune response just out of control. U and it I guess essentially what we're doing is we're coming up with different proteins and drugs that slow that immune response down. And you know, it's the it's our reaction to it that ages us. Rex, what will be the products that your company will bring to market? Well, the the CX11 drug is is now in clinical trials. We're going to do the clinical trial in Australia. We're we're pretty confident the impact that's going to have on arthritis because we've tested it in large animals and it it uh the cartilage regrows you know it and more importantly though the pain is immediately there's a sess sessation of the pain immediately with repairs with the kynise inhibitors you know we're now able to modulate just how much inflammation the body produces how much fibrosis because you need both of those responses, but now we're able to modulate it.
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And we're on the honor system. There's some words on there that if you choose, I know I'm not going to say. So, we just wanted to make you laugh. But I am craving a snicker doodle. I'm just saying. Does that count? That counts. There are 25 words in 25 spaces. So, I'm missing a word. Oh my god. No pressure. No pressure, but hurry up. Oh yeah. All right. Uh so again, uh I'm Andy Jagger. This is Sher Morola. We're the facilitators of our labor management collaboration um in the Clifton Public School District. Uh what labor management is and this is the only slide that we're going to read just that first part is labor management collaboration brings teachers, educators, administrators and central office staff to focus on student centered goal. Basically what that is is everybody's working together. Everybody has a voice in our district and at the forefront of every decision that we make is our children in this district.
You know, the the thing I fear with all of these drugs, however, is the current regulatory system. It is highly unlikely that any of them are going to see the light of day if the current regulatory system remains unchanged. You know, sepsis, uh, it's a oneanddone drug. There's there's not a lot of return of investment on it because if it costs $3 billion to take a drug to market, which is the average today, you need you you need a drug that you're going to have to take a lot of for a long period of time. You know, I have a friend who used to work for one of the major pharmaceuticals and the CEO was was asked a question about uh genetic therapies, you know, and what he said is we are a disease management company and that type of treatment the disease goes away.
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Um, it ensures that all community stakeholders maintain their voice and influence, helping to build a consensus, consensus, facilitate district-wide cooperation and communication. And Clifton Public Schools is committed to harnessing the benefits of collaboration to create a thriving educational community. Basically, we're trying to open up lines of communication from admin to all the other stakeholders. And it's it's been absolutely wonderful, we have to say. So why do we do this? Um in the the words of a a mentor Mr. Jingaro, as an administrator, as an educator, we have to admit that we do not know everything in this world and we don't know everything that happens within our buildings, in our classrooms, in our hallways, within our district. What our collaboration does is allows us to get all the information we possibly need to be successful and be the best professionals possible for our students. One thing that it doesn't say on here because again we are not going to read every single slide to you.
You know, now that doesn't mean these people are evil or ill-intentioned. Their job is to return investment to the shareholders. the the drugs we're talking about do not have that big of a return because they're one and done. You know, you you you take it one time. Uh the uh until we change that system and we change the way uh we do clinical trials which make it which create that business model, I don't see a lot of hope for a lot of this. Uh but I what I do find great hope in is the new administration. And I think it's going to change all of that. I think we're going to have a a 2025 response to how you test drugs. It doesn't have to cost $3 billion. And you know, the problem with aging drugs is how do you do clinical trials on them?
Samuel Sars and Philip Chudets. [Applause] The following girls will be uh attending Stonehill College in Northeastern for a week in June. Caris Chung and Emerson Vino. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Amy Mreki and I am a board member of the East of the River Chamber and I am also the president of Junior Achievement of Western Mass. It is an honor to be here today at East Long Meadow High School to present these awards to two remarkable students. The decision-making process was challenging as we received many applications for talented and exemplary students. We wish we could have recognized every applicant for their hard work and dedication. This year, we are thrilled to announce that we have increased our scholarship amount to $1,500, reflecting our commitment to supporting the next generation of leaders. We wish all the students the very best in their future endeavors. Without further ado, I am excited to present the scholarships to Dascilla Wamala and Tess Denol.
So look out for those words you need people. Um but one thing that is not on here is that we are really trying to harness the creativity of a valuable resource. are teachers instead of seeing a problem. We want teachers to see solutions and come to admin, teachers, teacher leaders, coaches come to us to say, "Hey, I have this great idea. Let's try this." And then admin gets really excited because they can put things into place to make teachers excited to get the teachers, you know, stoked about, you know, teaching, right? So, it's it's really been incredible. I can't say that enough. What what we what we our ultimate goal is to just bring out everyone's creativity starting with the administrators, teachers, and eventually our students. Absolutely. Here are some quotes from Lori Lama, our CEA president, and Danny Robertazi, our superintendent, speaking about the collaborative and what it's meant to them throughout the four to five years that we've been doing this.
You know, I mean, you we we haven't even defined the the biometrics of aging yet. you know, once that happens, I think we'll see a different uh different attitude from the FDA. But until the FDA changes, I I just see more of the same because the business model makes it that way, not the people, it's the business model. We have to change that. Let's stay on that for a moment. Uh you support what you've called the right to try. What is that and why is that important? Well, you have the right to try act which is if you are suffering from a terminal disease such as cancer and there is no treatment, right? The FDA will allow the a pharmaceutical to give you the drug and you and you can take it uh without clinical trials. Well, I'm 73 years old. What does it matter what I take?
[Applause] Sorry. Which one of you is test? You're test. Okay. Okay. This is for you. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome, guys. Good evening. My name is Bill Toth. I'm the branch manager of Mson Savings Bank here in Esau Meadow. We're a proud sponsor of tonight's three scholarship awards to three excelling students awarded to the graduating seniors planning to attend a accredited college, technical school, or certification program. The scholarship is based on the applicant's academic performance and extra extracurricular activities. It gives me great honor and a privilege to award Michael Mandrella, Gabriella Illingsworth, and Jacob Miller these awards. Thank you. [Applause] And next we have East Meetal Rotary Club coming up. Hi everyone. I'm Ally Donley, president of the East Long Meadow Rotary Club for 2024 to 2025. The East Long Meadow Rotary Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc. is now celebrating its 35th year of providing recognition to East Long Meadow students for the demonstration of scholastic excellence.
Again, we're not reading these to you because we just don't want to be those kind of people. Miss Morola, we have a question. If somebody gets bingo, are they supposed to yell it out? Bingo. One of the premises of our why and what has been shown through Lori Lana's presidential run as well as Dr. Jose leadership is the trust and and that is the one of the biggest things that I feel as as lifelong learners being trust your boss your your colleagues and being that is going to bring out that creativity and the best decisions possible for our students. Um, our our district collaborate uh collaborative team is is quite large. Um, I'm picking you up though. Go ahead. Awesome. Um, so again, every every stakeholder in our district is representative. Um again we have central officers, we have administrators. By the way, happy principal day, happy vice principal day to all our APS and VPs and principles in the district.
I mean, you know, I mean, my lifespan is just not going to be that much longer. And so, we're we're trying to get what we call an accredited patient. Uh, it once you turn 70, you can try whatever you want to try as long as you're of sound mind and all the risks have been explained to you. Now, look at the benefit of that. Now, you now have real data coming in from all of these patients that have elected to do this. you you uh you could accelerate the process of then approving these drugs for everyone, you know, uh and you know that you're not going to have any uh der of people wanting to do it during co 30,000 people agreed to be infected with COVID after they had taken a vaccination to see if it worked. Now the FDA wouldn't let them do it.
Since its inception, the Memorial Scholarship Foundation has awarded just shy of half a million dollars in scholarships. Additionally, since 1993, the Eastong Metal Rotary Club Foundation has awarded approximately $75,000 in scholarships. Scholarship recipients are chosen based on the whole person. A concept that takes into consideration academia, uh, school contributions, community involvement, future plans, and goals and letters of recommendations. I'm thrilled to announce this year's recipients. Please refrain refrain from applaud uh applause until um all of the recipients are named. The Earl Macdonald Memorial Scholarship, Jacob Miller. The James Davis Memorial Scholarship, Michael Mandrella and Tess Denalt. The Douglas Bureak Memorial Scholarship, Jillian Stevens and Michaela Delorio, the Gene Ference Bure Memorial Scholarship, Natalie Merrick and Porter Carroll, the Esong Meadow Rotary Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc., Daniel Nicolubu, the Eastong Metal Rotary Club, Willie Ferrero Memorial Scholarship, William Eagle. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] William and Daniel.
Um we have our power professionals represented. We have our secretaries, our custodial, we have our teachers. Um so we started off as a group of about 10 to 15 stu uh uh employees. We are now up to close to 40. So, it's a fantastic group um which meets um on a local level in our in our local buildings uh once a month and districtwide we meet four times a year. Don't forget to yell bingo if you got it. There's plenty of prizes. I also can't forget the school nurses. The school nurses are represented as well. So, the how um what what does this look like? So throughout the course of Sher and I's tenure, um we've always had certain buildings have had certain things in place. Um essentially we've had schools that have worked together close with their faculty for whatever reasons, whether it's being a school in need of improvement, uh or whether it's just that creativity of that that teacher and administrator relationship.
They couldn't do that, but it would have accelerated that process uh considerably. For the benefit of our listeners on Sirius XM Radio's POTUS channel 124, you're listening to White House Chronicle, I'm Llewellyn King, executive producer and host. Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III joins me. Our guests today are Dr. Jason Williams, founder of the Williams Cancer Institute, and Rex Paris, co-founder of Ree Paris, a regenerative medicine company. He is also mayor of Lancaster, California. White House Chronicle airs nationwide on PBS public educational and government access channels. Subscribe for full episodes of White House Chronicle each week as a podcast on your favorite audio platform. Watch this and previous episodes on the White House Chronicle website whle.com. For more information on co-host Adam Clayton Powell III's University of Southern California project, contact him at trueuvote usc.edu. edu. You can now find me on Substack. Jason, you have had success in treating cancer, but I understand you had to take one gravely ill patient out of the US uh to succeed.