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        <footnote id="F1">These shares are held as follows: Atlas Master Fund, Ltd. (&quot;AMF&quot;) owns 5.86% or 176 shares; Visium Balanced Fund, LP (&quot;VBF&quot;) owns 21.92% or 657 shares; Visium Long Bias Fund, LP (&quot;VLB&quot;) owns 9.41% or 282 shares; Visium Balanced Offshore Fund, Ltd. (&quot;VBOF&quot;) owns 36.34% or 1,090 shares; and Visium Long Bias Offshore Fund Ltd. (&quot;VLBOF&quot;) owns 25.85% or 775 shares. Additionally, Dmitry Balyasny owns 0.63% or 19 shares.  By virtue of its position as investment advisor and/or sub-advisor to each of Atlas Master Fund, Ltd. (&quot;AMF&quot;), Atlas Global, LLC (&quot;AG&quot;), Atlas Global Investments, Ltd. (&quot;AGI&quot;), Atlas Global Investments II, Ltd. (&quot;AGII&quot;), Visium Balanced Fund LP (&quot;VBF&quot;), Visium Long Bias Fund LP (&quot;VLB&quot;), Visium Balanced Offshore Fund, Ltd. (&quot;VBOF&quot;) and Visium Long Bias Offshore Fund Ltd. (&quot;VLBOF&quot;), Balyasny Asset Management L.P. may be deemed to beneficially own all 2,999 shares of Common Stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">By virtue of Atlas Global, LLC's (&quot;AG&quot;) ownership of 10.79% of the equity interest in AMF, AG may be deemed to beneficially own the 324 shares of Northfield Laboratories, Inc.'s (&quot;NFLD&quot;) stock that is beneficially owned by AMF.  By virtue of Atlas Global Investments, Ltd. (&quot;AGI&quot;) ownership of 83.72% of the equity interest in AMF, AGI may be deemed to beneficially own the 2,511 shares of NFLD stock that is beneficially owned by AMF.  By virtue of Atlas Global Investments II, Ltd. (&quot;AGII&quot;) ownership of 5.48% of the equity interest in AMF, AGII may be deemed to beneficially own the 164 shares of OTCI stock that is beneficially owned by AMF.</footnote>
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