Tag: Galapagos NV (GLPG)

Gilead Sciences: New Data Demonstrate Trodelvy Survival Benefit in Metastatic TNBC. See Also: Galapagos NV News

Gilead Sciences New Data from Trodelvy® Study Gilead Sciences (GILD) has recently announced new data from the Phase 3 ASCENT study evaluating Trodelvy® in patients with relapsed or refractory metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who received two or more prior systemic therapies, at least one of them for metastatic disease. Trodelvy has shown to improve progression-free survival (PFS . . . This content is for paid …

Gilead Sciences has Good News for Relapsed or Refractory Mantle Cell Lymphoma and More

Gilead Sciences Company, Kite Pharma, News Kite Pharma, a Gilead Company (GILD), announced that the European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization for Tecartus™ (autologous, anti-CD19-transduced CD3+ cells; formerly KTE-X19). Tecartus is a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for adult patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy including a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor. Conditional …

A Potential Merger Between AstraZeneca Plc and Gilead Sciences?

AstraZeneca Plc and Gilead Sciences Potential Merger News spread through the media announcing that AstraZeneca Plc (AZN) has approached Gilead Sciences (GILD) regarding a possible, potential merger. People familiar with the subject (we don’t know who they are) believe that such a merger, if it materializes, would be the highest healthcare business deal on record. As told, the story recounts that AstraZeneca got in touch …
An All Time High Market

An All Time High Market

Prohost Letter #437 An All Time High Market More Prohost Picks Have Reached the 2019 Targets The stock market performance has reached an all-time high with more of our picks reaching or nearing the Prohost 2019 price targets. There are stories to tell about some devastated stocks which many believed were dead and buried but were surprisingly resurrected, and their stocks are going up. Another …
What Was Seen and What Was Ignored

What Was Seen and What Was Ignored

The Week in Review #44 Quarterly Financial Results What Was Seen and What Was Ignored History and self-experiences enabled investors to expect and swallow biased reactions following the announcements of the biotech sector’s firms’ quarterly results. Investors have long been expecting negative reactions towards small development-stage biotech firms following the announcement of their quarterly financial results. What they did not expect is for the same …
The Bizarre Market

The Bizarre Market

The Week in Review #41 We Are Still Witnessing … The bizarre market performance that started in early 2019: In the past couple of months the great enthusiasm and response of the market to the undeniably strong economic indicators and the lowest unemployment figures turned, for mysterious reasons, to a perturbed-looking volatile market beast. The biotech stocks have given back most of their deserved gains …
Gilead Sciences Activities Are Exceeding Its All Time High. Celgene Demonstrates How Valuable It Could be for Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Gilead Sciences Activities Are Exceeding Its All Time High. Celgene Demonstrates How Valuable It Could be for Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Gilead Sciences Activities There is no doubt that Gilead Sciences (GILD) is doing whatever it takes to expand, improve and upgrade its pipeline products. For the last couple of months, each and every week, we heard news about collaborations with some companies and investment in others as well as licensing products from large, medium-sized and small firms. In less than ten . . . This content is for …
The Gilead and Galapagos Agreement Is a Big Win for Both Firms and Their Shareholders

The Gilead and Galapagos Agreement Is a Big Win for Both Firms and Their Shareholders

Gilead and Galapagos Global Research Collaboration Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Galapagos NV (GLPG) entered into a 10-year global research and development collaboration. Gilead will gain access to innovative compounds, including six molecules currently in clinical trials, more than 20 preclinical programs and a proven drug discovery platform. Galapagos will receive a $3.95 billion upfront payment and a $1.1 billion equity investment from Gilead. Galapagos will use the …
Gilead to File NDA for Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Filgotinib. Karyopharm Stock Gained 36% in Today’s Trading

Gilead to File NDA for Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Filgotinib. Karyopharm Stock Gained 36% in Today’s Trading

Gilead to File NDA for Filgotinib for Rheumatoid Arthritis Meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Gilead (GILD) announced it discussed with the agency the Phase 3 FINCH studies; as well as the ongoing Phase 2 MANTA safety study assessing semen parameters with its filgotinib treatment in men with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. As a result of this discussion a path forward has …
Trick or Trade?

Trick or Trade?

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 …
Gilead Sciences: In pursuit of cures for intractable diseases

Gilead Sciences: In pursuit of cures for intractable diseases

Gilead Sciences (GILD) has news that we felt good about it for a company that saved millions of lives from the minute, but monster viruses HIV and HCV. Curing millions of patients with HCV, has led Gilead to decide that the time has come for bringing cures to many horrible diseases. Yesterday, September 12, the news announced that Gilead and Precision BioSciences have entered into …
What is looking good in the aggressive portfolio

What is looking good in the aggressive portfolio

The Week in Review #29 PROHOST AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO  - The aggressive portfolio hosts biotech firms with solid scientific fundamentals and prominent scientists whose stocks have plummeted following some setbacks. A setback could be a failure of an investigational product to meet the endpoints of its clinical trial or that the small biotech firm has taken long to achieve its goals . . . This content …
Gilead and Galapagos have good news for patients with severely active Ankylosing Spondylitis

Gilead and Galapagos have good news for patients with severely active Ankylosing Spondylitis

Gilead Sciences’ (GILD) and Galapagos’ (GLPG) product filgotinib – a highly selective JAK1 inhibitor has met the primary efficacy endpoint in Phase 2 TORTUGA trial in adults with moderately to severely active ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Patients treated with filgotinib achieved significantly greater improvements compared to those who took a placebo. The results came from the Phase 2 of the TORTUGA – a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, …
Steps Forward in the Management of Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases

Steps Forward in the Management of Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases

Improving the management of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases has been a dream that seems to be happening slowly but surely in the past years. The improvement has gained energy and speed in 2015. The advancement in treatments has been demonstrated on several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Crohn’s disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and many other autoimmune diseases. Psoriasis   …
Who Skipped the Bloody Market? Why Gilead Embarked on Galapagos NV Drug Filgotonib?

Who Skipped the Bloody Market? Why Gilead Embarked on Galapagos NV Drug Filgotonib?

The market looks like angry, probably very angry, as stocks are in a severe selloff mood. There will be many explanations like usual, but it is difficult for us to speculate this time over the correctness of the offered explanations, including the Iran Saudi Arabia crisis, which led to an increase in the oil price whose decrease has caused the previous market’s bad mood. Like …