On November 24, 2014. the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT) sent a letter to Anthony P. Monaco, Office of the President, Tufts University, with copies to Michael Baenen, the Tufts Chief of Staff, and Peter Dolan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Tufts University, regarding the Tufts University press conference to announce an estimate of $2.6 billion as the R&D costs for new drugs. The UACT letter, which was signed by 18 persons from 10 countries, asks Tufts to provide more transparency about the funding of the press conference and the study, and to answer several questions about the relevance of the study to new treatments for cancer.