Elizabeth Holmes Takes the Stand in Self-Defense

After months of ongoing testimony from various whistleblowers and investors, Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and chief executive officer of the blood-testing company Theranos has finally taken the witness stand in her fraud trial.

After more than two months of testimony from investors and Theranos whistleblowers who testified about data manipulation, Holmes briefly took the stand on Friday, outlining the origins of the company, and then again on Monday, when she talked about working with the pharmaceutical industry during the company’s early days, specifically Pfizer and Schering-Plough. According to CNN, Holmes testified that the Theranos technology, which she intended to be a disrupting technology for diagnostics, had been “examined, used, and validated” by several pharmaceutical companies.