On Friday, December 14, the FDA granted early and accelerated approval of Ariad’s (ARIA) further reaching tyrosine kinase inhibitor Iclusig (ponatinib) for the treatment of adult patients with chronic, accelerated or blast phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) that is resistant or intolerant to prior tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy or Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL) that is resistant or intolerant to prior TKI therapy. More...
Give me the money or the hope of having it; you will see what I can do with my Targeted Antibody Payload (TAP) technology and my proprietary antibodies. That’s the message we feel ImmunoGen (IMGN) has meant to send about its upcoming clinical data presentations at the 54th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to be held December 8-11, 2012 in Atlanta, GA. More...
ILLUMINA (ILMN): Illumina is approaching its 52week high. We remind that around June/July 2011 the stock had reached for over $75 to be badly hit because of fear of the bad economy and dwarfing of the healthcare budget, which was relevant. The stock had reached as low as the mid-twenties. At the time we believed this price was an invitation to buy the stock. As a matter of fact ILMN jumped overnight from around $30 to over $50 following Roche’s offer to buy the firm. More...
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