Category: Impacting News

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Announces Proposed Offering of $500 Million Convertible Senior Notes. The Stock’s Price is Soaring.  

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Press Release Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ALNY), the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that it has commenced a private offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2028 (the “notes”) to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In connection with this offering …

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Libtayo® Plus Chemotherapy Results at Five Years Reinforce Significant and Durable Improvements in Survival Outcomes for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Announcement Late-breaking data from exploratory analyses at WCLC show Libtayo plus chemotherapy demonstrates a more than double five-year overall survival rate of 19.4%, compared to 8.8% with chemotherapy alone In a five-year analysis, consistent efficacy was observed across histologies with especially notable benefit in the squamous patient population where median overall survival was 22.3 months. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (REGN . . . This content …

FDA New Approvals of COVID-19 Vaccines

Approved COVID-19 Vaccines As of late August 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax.  These updated shots are intended to better protect against currently circulating variants. The 2024–2025 formulations of the following vaccines are approved for certain groups: Pfizer (

How to Bring Undervalued Stocks to Their Real Values and What About Intellia Therapeutics Stock?

One bad market day or more can help investors make it a good biotech market day. On the bad market days, many star firms become way undervalued for no reason whatsoever. Instead of selling these stocks Prohost's motto is to buy more. On Another Topic Prohost decided to buy NTLA. Recently this company's stocks started moving up, including yesterday, a bad market day.  We selected …

Ionis Pharmaceuticals DAWNZERA™ Granted US FDA Approval as First and Only RNA-Targeted Prophylactic Treatment for Hereditary Angioedema  

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) announced  that the U.S. FDA has approved DAWNZERA™ (donidalorsen) for prophylaxis to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older. DAWNZERA is the first and only RNA-targeted medicine approved for HAE, designed to target plasma prekallikrein (PKK), a key protein that activates inflammatory . . . This content is for paid …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Announces the FDA Acceptance of sNDA for Setmelanotide in Acquired Hypothalamic Obesity

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals in the NEWS Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RYTM) announced that the U.S. FDA has accepted for filing the company’s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for setmelanotide seeking approval for the treatment of conditions associated with acquired hypothalamic obesity. The FDA has granted Priority Review of the sNDA and assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA

Akero Therapeutics Q2 Financial and Study Results

Akero Therapeutics Akero Therapeutics (AKRO) reported its Q22025 financial results for the period ending June 30, 2025 as well as providing a business update. The report was published from the 96-Week Phase 2b SYMMETRY trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Three presentations highlighted data demonstrating statistically significant reversal of MASH compensated cirrhosis, and the anti-fibrotic activity . . . This content is …

Gilead Sciences Announced Its Q2 2025 Financial Results Yesterday

Gilead Sciences Reached Prohost Biotech's Target Gilead Sciences (GILD) reached our target of $120 today. Some investors will sell some and keep some and other investors will sell all the stocks they have. We will keep our stocks as we are increasing the target. Yesterday was Gilead's announcement of its second Quarter 2025 financials. The following is what . . . This content is for …

AstraZeneca Imfinzi Granted Priority Review and Breakthrough Therapy Designation in US for Patients with Resectable Early-Stage Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancers

AstraZeneca Imfinzi Based on MATTERHORN Phase III trial results which demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful event-free survival benefit If approved, this will be the first and only perioperative immunotherapy-based regimen in this setting AstraZeneca’s (AZN) supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been accepted and granted Priority Review in the US for the treatment . . . This content is for …

Vertex Announces European Commission Approval of ALYFTREK®- a New Once-Daily CFTR Modulator for the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis

Vertex Pharmaceuticals in the NEWS On Jul. 1, 2025, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) announced that the European Commission has granted approval for ALYFTREK® (deutivacaftor/tezacaftor/vanzacaftor) for the treatment of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) ages 6 years and older who have at least one non-class I mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. From . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Why BioNTech Acquiring CureVac Is Good News For BioNTech

BioNTech Announces Strategic Transaction to Acquire CureVac in Public Exchange Offer We wanted to know the reason for the acquisition so we looked at the BioNTech press release about the acquisition and found out the following news. On June 12, 2025, BioNTech (BNTX

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Presents Positive Data for Zimislecel in Type1 Diabetes at the American Diabetes Association 85th Scientific Sessions

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Simultaneous Announcements Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) announced simultaneous presentation and publication of updated data from Phase 1/2 portion of Phase 1/2/3 FORWARD-101 clinical trial in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) with impaired hypoglycemic awareness and severe hypoglycemic events (SHEs). The data were featured in oral presentation at the American Diabetes Association (ADA . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe …

Cidara Therapeutics Announces Positive Topline Results From Phase 2b Navigate Trial evaluating  CD388 – A Nonvaccine Preventative of Seasonal Influenza

Cidara Therapeutics Cidara Therapeutics uses its proprietary Cloudbreak® platform to develop novel drug-Fc conjugates (DFCs) comprising targeted small molecules or peptides coupled to a proprietary human antibody fragment (Fc). Cidara’s lead DFC candidate, CD388, is a long-acting antiviral designed to achieve universal prevention of seasonal and pandemic influenza with a single dose by directly inhibiting viral proliferation. In June 2023, CD388 was granted Fast Track …

Exelixis Announces Zanzalintinib in Combination with an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Improved Overall Survival in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Exelixis in the NEWS Exelixis (EXEL) announced positive topline results from the STELLAR-303 phase 3 pivotal trial in which zanzalintinib in combination with atezolizumab (Tecentriq®) demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in overall survival (OS) versus regorafenib in the intent-to-treat . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Why Many Biotech Investors Believe Akero Therapeutics Will Soon Be Acquired By A Top-Tier Company

Akero Therapeutics Akero Therapeutics (AKRO) - a clinical-stage company developing transformational treatments for patients with serious metabolic diseases marked by high unmet medical need, including metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). Currently, many investors, including us, believe that . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Exelixis First Quarter 2025 Financial Results Plus Corporate Update

Exelixis in the NEWS   Two days ago, Exelixis (EXEL) reported financial results for the first quarter of 2025, providing an update on the firm’s progress toward achieving key corporate objectives, and outlined its commercial, clinical, and pipeline development milestones. From Exelixis Michael M. Morrissey, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Exelixis said, " Exelixis has delivered outstanding financial performance . . . This content is …

Will A Great Yesterday Erase The World’s Stress After U.S And China’s Agreement Over Tariffs? Also Read About The Resurrected CytomX Therapeutics 

Yesterday's Market and CytomX Therapeutics May 12, 2025 was an excellent day for many stressed countries. The good day began following the U.S. and China’s announcement of an agreement on Tariffs Many countries have been stressed since being attacked by COVID-19 and then the war in Europe and the Middle East as well as unparallelled inflations.   Yesterday, the Stock market rallied and with it …

PTC Therapeutics Provides Corporate Update and Reports First Quarter 2025 Financial Results

PTC Therapeutics On May 6, 2025, PTC Therapeutics (PTCT) announced a corporate update and financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. We loved the firm’s strong revenue performance of $190 million,  the positive CHMP opinion for Sephience™ (sepiapterin) received in April 2025, and, important is the  NDA review remained on track for July 29, 2025, PDUFA date, the . . . This …