The FDA Approval of Regeneron's EYLEA Is Important The PANORAMA Trial of EYLEA for Diabetic Retinopathy The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Regeneron’s (REGN) product EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection for all stages of diabetic retinopathy. This approval is important. The data demonstrated from the PANORAMA trial showed EYLEA’s . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.
The Stock Market The Confused and Confusing Stock Market The stock market is confused and confusing. No analysts’ speculations are materializing and no satisfactory explanations for the market’s agitation and selloff. Although not an unprecedented situation, what makes it strange and more puzzling than previous market’s selloffs is that it is happening at a time when all the prerequisites of a healthy economy exist. Historically …
Why GW Pharmaceuticals Survived the Bear Market Day The DOW Today Sinking for disputed and unfathomed reasons; watching and listening to analysts with antagonistic opinions on the TV screen; the stock market has taken down with it all the DOW companies; and probably all the other companies, in all the other industries; especially those in the drug industry. GW Pharmaceuticals plc Today Attracting our attention …
A Great Day for Bluebird bio and Celgene Read the Clinical Trial Results for Myeloma What a Great Day! Jobs reaching the moon. Inflation not yet showing any concerning signs. A fiercely rebounding stock market. Those who are still listening to pessimistic opinions are missing the fact that technologies and biotechnology are standing at the starting line. They are not at the finish line. For …
Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Product Kalydeco for CF in Young Children Good news for Vertex (VRTX) product Kalydeco® (ivacaftor) is the first cystic fibrosis (CF) product to be prescribed for children ages six months to less than 12 months. Beneficiary children are those who have at least one mutation in their . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.
Praluent's Approval Is a Big Deal The approval of the Regeneron / Sanofi supplemental biological license application (sBLA) aimed at updating Praluent’s (alirocumab) prescribing information is, indeed, a big deal. Proven life-saving benefits are confirmed. Comprising reducing the overall risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), i.e., heart attack, ischemic stroke, death from coronary heart disease and unstable angina requiring hospitalization, would change the lives of …
The Misleading Market? The biotech stocks continue to begin their daily trading relying on opinionated articles implanted by bloggers on the Internet rather than on the firms’ voiced news. It is unfortunate that we continue to observe many investors incapable of pinpointing the differences between the fake and the real in interpreting the news. We do not blame them; however, as those who are misleading …
Exelixis & Aerie Have Good News Exelixis’ Good News about Cabometyx Takeda Pharmaceuticals applied to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) for approval to manufacture and to sell Exelixis’ (EXEL)product Cabometyx® (cabozantinib) for unresectable and metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in Japan. The submission brings $10 million in milestone payments to Exelixis from Takeda in the second quarter of 2019. Takeda’s application …
About Trovagene Trovagene (TROV) is still a clinical-stage company. The precision cancer medicine approach is practicing what it preaches right now in order to develop drugs that target cell division (mitosis) for: leukemias, lymphomas and solid tumor cancers. In March 2017, Trovagene licensed global development and commercialization rights for Onvansertib (PCM-075);
Zolgensma Findings The FDA submission of the gene therapy product Zolgensma was based on positive findings from a trial of 15 babies treated with it. Recently; however, at the Orlando meeting of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Novartis (NVS) presented interim results for 22 babies with Type 1 SMA which is considered the . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe …
Novartis Has More Promising Data from Their Phase 3 Gene Therapy Trial with AveXis AveXis Inc., a Novartis (NVS) company, announced positive interim data from its Phase 3 STR1VE trial of Zolgensma® (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xio (AVXS-101) gene therapy in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Type 1. About Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.
Gilead and insitro Collaborate to Discover and Develop Novel Therapies for NASH using ISH Gilead Sciences (GILD) and insitro entered into a strategic collaboration to discover and develop treatments for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). NASH A chronic form of liver disease characterized by excess fat in the liver, inflammation, and liver cell damage. Inflammation and liver cell damage can cause scarring of the liver or fibrosis. Ultimately leading …
Regeneron and Alnylam Agreement Will Benefit Both So Why the Sell-Off? Regeneron Pharmacueticals Founded, and led for 30 years, by physician-scientists Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) demonstrates an exceptional ability to translate science into medicine. Working diligently Regeneron succeeded in putting seven treatments in the hands of specialists in clinics around the world. Additionally, the firm managed to build a rich pipeline of numerous investigational products; all of …
Sangamo’s Stock Price Soars Sangamo Therapeutics’ (SGMO) stock soared more than 52% in pre-market trading following the announcement with Pfizer (PFE), of interim data from Phase 1/2 Alta study evaluating the firm’s gene therapy product SB-525 for severe hemophilia A. The Product, SB-525 SB-525 comprises a recombinant adeno-associated virus serotype 6 vector (AAV6) encoding the complementary deoxyribonucleic acid for B domain deleted human FVIII. The …
The Market is Outperforming Today. There is important news today about Novartis; part of which we are posting now. There is still more news related to Novartis as well as other biotech and biopharmaceutical companies. All will be in the upcoming Prohost Letter #430. We believe that the news we are posting will have a positive impact on the firms that announced them. Today’s news …
Following Seattle Genetics' (SGEN) and Astellas Pharma's announcement of positive results, from pivotal trial of the conjugated monoclonal antibody drug Enfortumab Vedotin in locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer, the stock experienced a selloff. Prohost Observations We do not believe that there is anything wrong with the positive results coming out of EV-201 trial investigating Enfortumab Vedotinfor locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who have received previous …
The uncontrolled blowing toxic wind contaminates this country’s environment, it brings down the oversold scientifically solid and promising biotech stocks together with the undersold disappointing firms’ stocks. All we want is peace of mind, fairness and well being for America and the rest of the world. We are confident that this wish will materialize when the country’s leaders work together in harmony to make it …
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