– The second approval of a cancer drug for Exelixis – The approval of Exelixis/Roche drugs combination will save lives. – The melanoma the combination drugs treat is a killer with bad prognosis  – The terms of Exelixis/Roche agreement are favorable Reiterating our enthusiastic feeling about the future of Exelixis (EXEL), our feeling has transformed into reality and here we are, Swissmedic, the Swiss licensing …

A Letter From Prohost The Stock Market Selloff What’s Going On and What Do We Do Now? We have lived through selloffs in the previous years and recently. We also read what experts and top economists have written to date trying to explain the selloff, drawing their conclusions. We expected them to speculate on the market’s next moves, indicating how or when the selloff would …

but first: Here is some good news from  SAREPTA Yesterday we wrote about BioMarin (BMRN) being granted FDA “Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for its Duchenne potential muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug drisapersen.Today, Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) also a developer of RNA-targeted therapeutics has been granted the same for its drug eteplirsen, also a potential treatment for DMD patients who are amenable to skipping exon 51. The Rare …

Kite Pharma (Kite) stock was sliding, raising concern about the firm and all the biotech firms that are designing and developing CAR T Cell immunotherapy treatments for cancer. Many investors are wondering about the plummeting of the stock and obviously others have learned about one death that occurred during clinical trial, which caused Kite selloff. Finally, Kite provided an update from its ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical …

INOVIO Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO) is much worth looking at now than 6 months ago. The deal signed between MedImmune, AstraZeneca’s development arm, and Inovio Pharmaceuticals says something. The DEAL MedImmune acquired exclusive rights to Inovio’s INO-3112 immunotherapy against cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, which account for more than 70 percent of cervical pre-cancers and cancers. INO-3112 is in Phase 1/2 clinical …

In The NEWS IMMUNOTHERAPY MIRATI THERAPEUTICS Mirati Therapeutics (MRTX) is an oncology company focusing on genetic and epigenetic drivers of cancer. The firm’s clinical stage product candidates include MGCD265, a multi-targeted kinase inhibitor that is in Phase 1b clinical development trials for the treatment of solid tumors, including lung, head and neck, and gastric cancers; MGCD516, a kinase inhibitor, which is in Phase 1 clinical …

The moment the new IPO NantKwest (NK) landed in the town of publicly traded firms, some called it the “New Golden Boy”. During the IPO, investors who knew about this firm and were waiting for that day seemed confident that the stock would surge. As a matter of fact, the stock did surge. On July 27, NantKwest, Inc. (formerly Conkwest, Inc.), Issued a press release …