Month: July 2021

Cassava Sciences Good News and an Unwarranted Sell-Off. A New Drug Approval for Bristol-Myers Squibb and ImmunoGen Quarterly Results

Cassava Sciences Inc Following Cassava Sciences Inc successful and promising presentations, all the titles of the news and articles written by fair professionals have been as follows: “Cassava Sciences announces positive biomarkers’ data and positive Cognition Data following the treatment with Simufilam” These titles never moved from the Internet even after a huge sell-off occurred.  Indeed, the improvement in cognition demonstrated by the data was …

Cassava Sciences Inc: Today’s Press Releases

Cassava Sciences Inc Press Release Related to Positive Biomarker Data  Cassava Sciences Inc (SAVA) announced today, in a press release, positive biomarker data from an open-label study of simufilam, the Company’s investigational drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. In a clinical study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), simufilam significantly improved all measured biomarkers in patients with Alzheimer’s disease following 6 months of open-label …

Cassava Sciences Announces Positive Data with SavaDx from a Randomized Controlled Phase 2b Study of Simufilam

Cassava Sciences: Positive Clinical Data with SavaDX Cassava Sciences (SAVA) today announced positive clinical data with SavaDx, an investigational diagnostic/biomarker to detect Alzheimer’s disease with a simple blood test. SavaDx was used to measure plasma levels of altered filamin A before and after simufilam treatment in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. In this Phase 2b randomized, controlled trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), simufilam significantly reduced …

bluebird bio Receives Approval for its Gene Therapy SKYSONA™ for Young People with Early CALD Without a Matched Sibling Donor

bluebird bio Receives EC Approval for  bluebird bio (BLUE) announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorization of SKYSONA™ (elivaldogene autotemcel, Lenti-D™) one-time gene therapy for the treatment of early cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD) in patients less than 18 years of age with an ABCD1 genetic mutation, and for whom a human leukocyte antigen . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to …

Cassava Sciences Stock Soared. See Also: The Resurrection of Sunesis Pharmaceuticals

Cassava Sciences Soared Cassava Sciences (SAVA) stock soared today. The firm announced that it will present two new clinical datasets for its product candidates at the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), which will be held virtually in Denver, CO from July 26th through July 30th. Cassava Sciences’ investigational product candidates include simufilam treatment . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or …

Immunome Inc Stock Rallied After Announcing it Neutralized the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant.

Immunome Inc: Neutralizing SARS-C0V-2 Delta Variant Immunome Inc (IMNM) is a small biotech firm whose stock soared after announcing today that its three-antibody cocktail (IMM-BCP-01) demonstrated potent neutralizing activity against the SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that cause COVID-19) Delta variant in pre-clinical pseudovirus testing. The IMM-BCP-01 cocktail demonstrated in-vitro activity via non-neutralizing mechanisms, such as complement fixation, which Immunome expects will enable viral clearance. From the …

Why Cytokinetics’ Stock Price Soared in a Bad Market Day

Cytokinetics Positive Topline Results of CK-274 Cytokinetics (CYTK) announced positive topline results of Phase 2 clinical trial of CK-274 - an investigational cardiac myosin inhibitor in development for the potential treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The results inform dose selection. They also support the progression of CK-274 to a planned Phase 3 registrational clinical trial, expected to start before . . . This content is …

Important Steps Forward Taken by Vir Biotechnology and Separately by Compugen

Vir Biotechnology Vir Biotechnology (VIR) announced the dosing of the first patient in the Phase 2 MARCH (Monoclonal Antibody siRNA Combination against Hepatitis B) trial to evaluate VIR-2218 together with VIR-3434 for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection – a combination designed to achieve a functional cure. VIR-2218 is an investigational . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Halozyme Announced Janssen Received U.S. FDA Approval of DARZALEX FASPRO®. See Also: IVERIC bio News

Halozyme Therapeutics Announced US FDA Approval for Janssen Biotech's DARZALEX FASPRO® Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO) announced that Janssen Biotech, Inc. (Janssen) received U.S. FDA approval of DARZALEX FASPRO® (daratumumab + hyaluronidase-fihj) in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone (Pd) for adult patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior line of therapy, including . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to …

Companies Behind the Biotechnology Revolution

Prohost Portfolio PLUS #7 Companies Behind The Biotechnology Revolution Without these firms, basic science discoveries in the universities and the academic institutions and by the firms themselves would remain unutilized and shelved. Most of the firms we picked for the Prohost Portfolio are bringing novel products to newly discovered targets, and most have offered proof of concept of their hypotheses. Having said that, we add …

Why Celldex Therapeutics Stock is Soaring

Celldex Therapeutics is Soaring Celldex Therapeutics (CLDX) stock soared following the firm’s announcement of updated data from its ongoing, open-label Phase 1b clinical trial of CDX-0159 in patients with antihistamine refractory cold urticaria and symptomatic dermographism, which are the two most common forms of chronic inducible urticaria. CDX-0159 is a humanized monoclonal antibody that specifically binds the receptor tyrosine kinase KIT with high specificity and …

Important News and Results from Two Companies in the Prohost Portfolio

Important News and Results from Akero Therapeutics Akero Therapeutics (AKRO) announced that full results of the main portion of its Phase 2a BALANCED trial in biopsy-confirmed NASH patients with F1-F3 fibrosis have been published in Nature Medicine. The study shows investigational NASH Drug Efruxifermin (EFX) reduced liver fat to normal levels and reversed fibrosis after 16 weeks . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

IVERIC bio Receives FDA Agreement Under an SPA for GATHER2 Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Zimura®

IVERIC bio GATHER2 Trial of Zimura® for Geographic Atrophy  IVERIC Bio (ISEE) announced that it received written agreement from the U.S. FDA under a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for the overall design of GATHER2, the pivotal clinical trial of IVERIC product Zimura® (avacincaptad pegol) for the treatment of . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

TRxADE HEALTH Subsidiary, Bonum Health, Signed a Telemedicine Service Distribution Deal with Big Y Pharmacy. See Also: Innate Pharma

TRxADE HEALTH Inc TRxADE HEALTH Inc (MEDS) is a health service IT company focused on digitalizing the retail pharmacy experience by optimizing drug procurement, the prescription journey, and patient engagement in the U.S.. The firm operates the TRxADE drug procurement marketplace serving a total of 12,100+ members nationwide, fostering price transparency. Under the Bonum Health brand, the firm offers patient-centric telehealth services. For more information, please visit …