Prohost Portfolio PLUS #2 Re-Working Some Evaluated Biotechnology Firms Exelixis: 2020 and 2021 Wondering why Exelixis’ (EXEL) stock has looked paralyzed for more than two years? To know better about Exelixis the entrepreneur and Exelixis the creative scientific institution, we decided to go to the recorded Exelixis history, financial results and scientific . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe …

Exelixis Latest News The latest news announced by Exelixis (EXEL) is the FDA acceptance of its New Drug Application (NDA) that evaluates the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and preliminary antitumor activity of the firm’s investigational product XB002 in advanced solid tumors. XB002 is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) composed of a human monoclonal antibody against tissue factor. After binding to tissue factor on tumor cells, XB002 is …

Exelixis Boxed in on Good News Exelixis (EXEL) is one of the firms boxed in by rule of thumb traders and short-sellers who put enormous pressure on biotech firms regardless of their good news. We sincerely believe that is what's happening to EXEL. We also believe that these firms, especially the achievers . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe …

Prohost Letter #444 The End of the Year Issue was delayed because our 2020 Prohost Portfolio stocks’ targets for the year failed to materialize; nobody not even the authorities were capable of predicting the pandemic, which continues to plague the world. As 2021 approached, we were unable to the End of the Year issue on time as we lacked the information required for the fair …

Exelixis: FDA Approval for Cabometyx in Combination with Opdivo  Exelixis (EXEL) announced that the United States FDA has approved CABOMETYX (cabozantinib) in combination with OPDIVO® (nivolumab) as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). RCC is among the 10 most frequently diagnosed cancers in the U.S. annually. Dr. Toni Choueiri, Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and The …

Exelixis Bright Future Exelixis Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results   Exelixis (EXEL) announced its preliminary unaudited financial results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020. It also provided financial guidance for the full year 2021 and delivered an update on its business. With regard to Exelixis most important franchise, cabozantinib, the product’s net revenues reached $200 million in the . . . …

Reata Pharmaceuticals: Why its Stock Price is Down Reata Pharmaceuticals (RETA) announced that it has priced a public offering of 2,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $140.85 per share for gross proceeds of $281.7 million. Reata has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase 300,000 additional . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

CRISPR Therapeutics Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Co-Founder CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP) announced on October 7, 2020 that Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on the CRISPR/Cas9 system.  Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier is the co-founder of CRISPR Therapeutics together with Rodger Novak and Shaun Foy. Dr. Charpentier is the Founding, Scientific and Managing . . . This content is …

Important Quarterly Results Announcements Monday, November 2, 2020 at 8:PM ET IVERIC bio IVERIC bio’s (ISEE) management team will host a live conference call and webcast following the announcement to discuss the Company’s financial results and provide a general business update. To participate in this conference call please dial 866-575-6539 (USA) or 323-794-2575 (International) using passcode 6339331. A live, listen-only, audio webcast of the conference …

Exelixis and Bristol-Myers Squibb sNDA and sBLA Accepted by the FDA Exelixis (EXEL) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (

Exelixis Announces Submission of sNDA to US FDA for CABOMETYX® Exelixis (EXEL) announced the submission of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to the U.S. FDA for CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib) in combination with Opdivo® (nivolumab) for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). From Exelixis According to Gisela Schwab, M.D., President, Product Development and Medical . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Prohost Letter #440 Coronavirus The Therapeutics Gilead’s Remdesivir Treating COVID-19 patients requires therapeutic products that can deal with moderate and severe persistent symptoms that are unwilling to ease or completely disappear after weeks of isolation, when following the distancing and wearing masks. The first product proven effective and safe to be granted FDA Emergency Use Approval (EUA) happens to be remdesivir from Gilead Sciences (

Exelixis Rallying from CheckMate-9ER Trial Results Exelixis (EXEL) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (

Exelixis, Takeda and Japanese RCC Patients Today we learned from Exelixis (EXEL) that Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, which is responsible for the clinical development and commercialization of Exelixis' oncology drug  CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Exelixis Announced Results from its CABOMETYX® Combination with Roche's TECENTRIQ® News announced by Exelixis (EXEL) about encouraging results from the combination of its product cabozantinib (CABOMETYX®) with Roche’s product atezolizumab (TECENTRIQ . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Coming Soon at Prohost Biotech We have stories to tell about our picked stocks which we believe could deepen the Prohost Biotech readers’ understanding of our strategy regarding the evaluation of the biotech companies. Our strategy has made it possible for us to fairly evaluate both the development-stage firms and the revenues- and incomes-generating firms in the biotech sector.     Most of our stories will …

Exelixis Positive Results from IMspire 150 Exelixis (EXEL) announced positive results from IMspire 150; the phase 3 trial of atezolizumab (TECENTRIQ®), cobimetinib (COTELLIC®) and vemurafenib (ZELBORAF®) in people with previously untreated BRAF V600 mutation-positive advanced melanoma.  The IMspire150 study met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS). Adding atezolizumab to cobimetinib and vemurafenib helped reduce the risk of disease worsening or death, compared to placebo plus …

Exelixis and Ipsen Received Approval from Health Canada for CABOMETYX® From Exelixis (EXEL) we learned that its partner, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Canada, has received approval from Health Canada of CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib) tablets for the treatment of hepatocellular . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Exelixis and Daiichi Sankyo Partner to Prevent and Treat Diabetic Nephropathy Exelixis (EXEL) and Daiichi Sankyo (

The Week in Review #46 The Quarterly Financial Results The quarterly financial results that analysts and investors relied on for years to evaluate biotech firms, including development stage firms, seem to change. Investors have finally realized that development-stage firms have no marketed drugs and no revenues, hence, no incomes and should be evaluated based on the clinical trial results of their pipeline products. They saw …