Gene Therapy Stocks Experiencing Selloffs  Every investor in the biotech sector must have experienced selloffs of the stocks from companies specialized in gene therapy, gene editing, antisense, RNAi and mRNA therapies. Recently, bluebird bio’s (BLUE) stock was devastated. The selloffs occurred for many reasons, most of . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

The Medicines Company The Medicines Company (MDCO) focuses on cardiovascular diseases. Major goals are halting the progression of atherosclerosis and lowering the cardiovascular risk caused by high levels of LDL Cholesterol (LDL-C). The firm announced good news from the results of its first pivotal Phase . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Amgen Agreement with Celgene for Otezla® In the News Amgen (AMGN) entered into an agreement with Celgene (CELG) to acquire worldwide rights to Otezla® (apremilast), the only oral, non-biologic treatment for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and certain related assets and liabilities for $13.4 billion in cash. Amgen cited the benefits of this agreement as follows: A strong fit with Amgen’s long-standing expertise in inflammation and …

AstraZeneca: Farxiga for Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction  AstraZeneca (AZN) has good news. Many of them are extremely positive. However, the firm’s stock is still struggling to get this pharmaceutical company out of the oversold territory where it has been living since the beginning of the year.    Among the recent good news came the results from a Phase 3 trial using AstraZeneca’s SGLT2 inhibitor …

From Moderna  From the press release we learned that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for Moderna (MRNA) investigational Zika vaccine (mRNA-1893) currently being evaluated in a Phase 1 study for the prevention of Zika virus infection in healthy adults. This is good news for

The Week in Review #41 We Are Still Witnessing … The bizarre market performance that started in early 2019: In the past couple of months the great enthusiasm and response of the market to the undeniably strong economic indicators and the lowest unemployment figures turned, for mysterious reasons, to a perturbed-looking volatile market beast. The biotech stocks have given back most of their deserved gains …

Akari Therapeutics Stock Rallied Autoimmune and inflammatory disease treatments are works in progress with some approved products demonstrating remarkable efficacy. Still there are untreated inflammatory diseases, among them are those where the complement (C5) and/or leukotriene (LTB4) systems are implicated. Akari Therapeutics (AKTX) is a small biopharmaceutical company focused on therapeutics for the orphan autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.The Company announced that the U.S. Food and …

Regeneron Product REGN-EB3 Saving Lives Regeneron (REGN) announced that an independent monitoring board ended its investigational product REGN-EB3 trial after reviewing interim mortality data from 499 patients. REGN-EB3 was found superior to rival therapy from Mapp Biopharmaceuticals (MAPP) in saving the lives in . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Palm Ebola Clinical Trial Stopped Early as Regeneron Product REGN-EB3 Therapy Shows Superiority to ZMapp in Preventing Ebola Deaths TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2019,/PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced that the Company was informed by study investigators that a randomized, controlled trial evaluating four investigational therapies for Ebola virus infection was stopped early because REGN-EB3 . . . This content is for paid …

Prohost Letter #434 Special Issue The Value of the Biotech Companies With a strong economy and an unemployment rate reaching the lowest percentage in decades we are witnessing strange, if not bizarre, market performance since the beginning of 2019. From the early signs of economic strength the stock market reacted explicitly to positive, economic news. Later, the enthusiastic market turned dispirited and volatile. The biotech …

Amgen’s Stock Is Up Amgen (AMGN) is speeding towards reaching its true, fair value. In the Q2 financial results Amgen has beaten the most optimistic analysts’ expectations and negative investors who keep mourning the firm’s 35 years old products’ sales’ decline while ignoring the many newly approved breakthrough products with their large markets and the capability to treat diseases that had no treatments. They continued selling …

Press Release Amgen Wins Patent Case On Enbrel® (etanercept) Court Upholds Validity of Patent Claims Directed to Enbrel Preliminary Injunction to Remain in Place THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 9, 2019, /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (AMGN) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled in Amgen's . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Nektar Therapeutics Story Everything was going well with Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) stock during the Conference call regarding the firm’s Q2 financial results. (See the firm's press release under our Impacting News column). Following the Conference call the company unveiled that some of the patients treated in . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Nektar Press Release Nektar Therapeutics Results for Q2 of 2019 Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019. Cash and investments in marketable securities at June 30, 2019 were $1.8 billion as compared to $1.9 billion at December . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

 The News Prohost Was Waiting for to Post Its Special Letter Prohost has one eye on the development-stage biotech and biopharmaceutical companies' scientific fundamentals and accomplishments as well as the financial results on the revenue-generating firms. Prohost has the second eye on the market performance, its volatility and the possible reasons it sinks every other day, or every other week, in calmer days during a …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals From Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) we learned that positive, top-line results from two pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating setmelanotide, for pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) and leptin receptor (LEPR) deficiency obesities, have met their primary endpoints and all key secondary endpoints. The product demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful effect on weight loss and reductions in insatiable hunger, or hyperphagia, in patients with POMC and LEPR deficiency …

What Have We Learned from the Market's Recent Stock Moves? Well. Did we learn anything from what happened in the stock market and the reversal that started near the end of yesterday and occurred today? Listening to Larry Kudlow, the Director of the National Economic Council, as well as other academic economists and analysts all the while watching the way the market crashed yesterday and …

In This Column Every day thousands of press releases are issued about biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms. Only a few of these press releases have any impact, whether it be positive or negative, on the firms' that are the subject of these press releases. Prohost's Impacting News column will contain only those press releases that have news with a tremendous impact on the firms' that are …

Prohost has just finished a very hard task; evaluating its best picks from the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical sectors. In this evaluation of hand-selected stocks, Prohost did not consider the negotiation between the U.S. and China a serious factor that could affect the biotech stocks’ values. We do, however, consider the US/China negotiations extremely important towards reaching a fair solution that satisfies the people in both …

Nektar Therapeutics We believe that Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) is undervalued. We base this on the firm’s technological capability. Its current pipeline is filled with promising products. Today we learned that the U.S. FDA granted Nektar’s and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.