Category: Impacting News

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 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 …

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. …

Auris Medical Holding Ltd has Encouraging Results Addressing the Unmet Needs of ATLL

Auris Medical Holding Ltd OligoPhoreTM Technology for ATLL Auris Medical Holding Ltd. (EARS) is a company focusing on addressing unmet medical needs through RNA therapeutics for allergies, viral infection protection and inner ear therapeutics. The firm has published results from an in vivo study demonstrating significant inhibition of tumor growth. The inhibition of tumor growth occurred by siRNA knock-down of . . . This content …

An FDA Approval for Blueprint Medicines. See Also: An Important Presentation from IVERIC Bio

Inferior ways used to evaluate clinical-stage biotech firms are those that ignore the sciences, the technologies and the promising results from the products in clinical trials. It reached a stage where assessors are even ignoring the value of the approval of biotech firms’ products that succeeded in treating diseases that are yet to find treatments. We have Superior News from Blueprint Medicines The U.S. Food …

Gilead Sciences CAR-T Cell Yescarta Became the First and Only FDA Approved Treatment for Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Indolent Follicular Lymphoma

Gilead Sciences Yescarta for Relapsed or Refractory Indolent Follicula Lymphoma If Kite Pharma - a Gilead Sciences (GILD) company, had been acquired by any firm other than Gilead the stock would have gained at least 20% because of the news announced a few days ago. Kite Pharma announced outstanding Yescarta® (axicabtagene ciloleucel) results from the pivotal ZUMA-5 trial. At a minimum follow . . . This …

Why Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Paid Sutro Biopharma. See Also: BMY Approval of Zeposia for UC

Sutro Biopharma Receives Milestone Payment from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Sutro Biopharma (STRO) announced that it has received a milestone payment under its collaboration and license agreement with the healthcare division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt,Germany. The payment is related to a patient enrollment achievement in the Phase 1 dose-escalation and expansion study of M1231 in adult patients . . . This content is for paid …

Amgen: FDA Approves LUMAKRAS™, the First and Only Targeted Treatment for Patients with KRAS G12C-Mutated Locally Advanced or Metastatic NSCLC

Amgen Announced FDA Approval of LUMAKRAS™  Amgen (AMGN) announced the news about the FDA approval of LUMAKRAS™ (sotorasib) on May 28, 2021. The firm indicated that the FDA granted approval is for adults with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have received at least one prior systemic therapy. LUMAKRAS received . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please …

Aptevo Therapeutics Inc Product APVO436 Improves the Treatment of Resistant AML and MDS

Aptevo Therapeutics Inc in the News Aptevo Therapeutics Inc (APVO) has positive results from the Phase 1 dose-escalation trial evaluating its lead ADAPTIR candidate product APVO436 for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). APVO436 APVO436 - Aptevo's bispecific ADAPTIR that targets CD123 x CD3, is designed to redirect the immune system . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Recursion Pharmaceuticals: A Step Forward Towards Improving C. Difficile Treatment

Recursion Pharmaceuticals Product REC-163964 Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (RXRX) announced the initiation of an investigational new drug (IND)-enabling studies for REC-163964, a first-in-class, small molecule toxin inhibitor for possible prevention of recurrent Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections and potential prophylactic use in high-risk patients. REC-163964 is a new chemical entity and the first to be . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Cassava Sciences Awarded NIH Grant. See Also: Intellia Therapeutics Presentations at the 24th ASGCT Meeting

Cassava Sciences Awarded NIH Research Grant for Simufilam Cassava Sciences (SAVA) announced that it has been awarded a new $2.7 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant was awarded following a peer review of clinical and scientific data for simufilam, its drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease, and is intended to fund clinical readiness activities . . . This content is …

Sutro Biopharma: First Quarter Financial Results, Business Highlights and More

Sutro Biopharma Inc Sutro Biopharma (STRO) is a clinical-stage drug discovery, development and manufacturing company. Its expertise is in the application of precise protein engineering and rational design to create next-generation cancer and autoimmune therapeutics. Sutro Biopharma reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2021 and its recent business highlights, in addition to providing a preview of anticipated selected . . . This content …

Gilead Sciences Conference Call Information. See Also: Compugen Announcements

Gilead Sciences First-Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call Info Gilead Sciences (GILD) management will host a conference call to discuss the company’s first-quarter 2021 financial results and will provide a business update today, Thursday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. EST.  Investors can dial 1-877-359-9508 (U.S.) or 1-224-357-2393 (international) to reach . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to …

AstraZeneca: Tagrisso Recommended for Marketing Authorization in the EU for Early Stage EGFRm NSCLC

AstraZeneca: Tagrisso for Adult Patients with Early-Stage EGFRm NSCLC... AstraZeneca (AZN): Tagrisso (osimertinib) has been recommended for marketing authorization in the European Union for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with early-stage (IB, II and IIIA) epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated (EGFRm) non-small cell lung . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Humanigen Inc Product Lenzilumab Combination with CAR T in DLBCL Protects from Severe Cytokine Syndrome

Humanigen Product Lenzilumab Combination with CAR-T At the recommended Phase 2 dose, lenzilumab in combination with CAR-T demonstrated a 100% objective response rate and no severe cytokine release syndrome or severe neurotoxicity Lenzilumab reduced IL-6, CRP, ferritin, MCP-1, IL-8, and IP-10 (CXCL-10) among others Humanigen now plans to conduct a randomized, potentially registrational, Phase 2 study with lenzilumab combined with all commercially available CD19 CAR-T …

Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline: The European Medicines Agency Started a Review of VIR-7831 for COVID-19

Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline in April 2020  In April 2020, Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline entered into a collaboration to research and develop solutions for coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). The collaboration uses Vir’s proprietary monoclonal antibody platform technology to accelerate existing and identify new anti-viral antibodies that could be used as therapeutic or preventive options to help address the current COVID-19 pandemic …