EXELIXIS (EXEL) Friends and subscribers are asking the following question for more than two weeks now: Why EXEL stock has rallied? Most of those who asked the question owned the stock and made a lot of profit on it. The truth is that those investors wanted to know whether it was time for them to take their profit and enjoy it elsewhere. In other words; …

The FDA approval of Sarepta’s (SRPT) Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) product, Exondys 51 (eteplirsen), surprised many analysts. Nonetheless, it doubled SRPT's price after the stock had already multiplied everal folds since the stock had been cremated. Good for those who dared to bet on SRPT in spite of the FDA’s independent advisory committee’s voting against the approval and the FDA hesitation to listen to the …

As we expected in our previous articles, Today, Aerie Pharmaceuticals (AERI) came up with great news about its glaucoma treatment. The stock surged ….   On February 18, 2016, Under News & Comments, we wrote an article titled “Aerie Pharmaceuticals: Novel Glaucoma Eye Drops Confirm their Superiority”. The article also referred to a Prohost previous article written on February 4, 2015 and tittled “Aerie Pharmaceuticals …

Another gene editing firm, CRISPR Therapeutics decided to become publicly traded. On Friday, the private firm filed with the SEC planning for a $90 million initial public offering (IPO). CRISPR Therapeutics is headquartered in Switzerland, but also exists in Cambridge. It was cofounded by Emmanuelle Charpentier, who, together with Jennifer Doudna claim discovering CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing recipe. The firm aim is to use CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing …

The FDA announced what made Clovis Oncology (CLVS) shareholders believe that the bad times might have ended for the firm and a new era is beginning. The announcement was about the FDA decision not to hold an advisory committee meeting to discuss the company’s New Drug Application (NDA) for drug rucaparib aimed at treating advanced ovarian cancer. The regulatory agency had already granted rucaparib a …

Xoma’s (XOMA) webcast and conference call scheduled for September 15, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. PDT (4:30 p.m. EDT) is important and should be interesting to the firm’s shareholders. The conference call will provide an update on what’s going on in the Phase 2 trial of XOMA 358, the firm’s drug, which aims at treating congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) and hypoglycemia post-bariatric surgery (PBS). The Drug and …

Filled with high hopes and great enthusiasm, we are following up on Nektar’s (NKTR) immunotherapy product NKTR-214, which is in trials by Mayo Clinic and MD Anderson cancer center. The product is a CD122-biased agonist designed to stimulate the patient’s own immune system to kill tumor cells. The technology behind the molecule “targeted polymer conjugate technology” has been validated time and time again in clinical …