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 …

Acquisitions  AstraZeneca Acquires Alexion Pharmaceuticals AstraZeneca (AZN) and Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) entered into a definitive agreement for . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

COVID-19 Vaccine Updates Pfizer’s (PFE)/BioNTech’s (BNTX) and Moderna’s (MRNA) COVID-19 vaccines have demonstrated safety at around 95% efficacy.   AstraZeneca (AZN) and Oxford University announced today that their COVID-19 vaccine was 90% effective in preventing infections. The efficacy average, however, was 70%, leading the stock to travel south rather than north.     Regardless of the efficacy differences AstraZeneca stated that it would immediately prepare …

Gilead Sciences News Results from Phase 2/3 CAPELLA trial evaluating Gilead Sciences (GILD) lenacapavir achieved the primary endpoint in heavily treatment-experienced people with multidrug-resistant HIV-1 infection. The study showed that 88% of participants receiving lenacapavir experienced at least a 0.5 log10 reduction in HIV-1 viral load by the end of 14 days of functional monotherapy as . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Gilead Sciences Veklury® (Remdesivir) was Approved by the US FDA The U.S. FDA approved Gilead Sciences (GILD) antiviral drug Veklury® (remdesivir) for COVID-19 infected patients who require hospitalization. Veklury halts the SARS-CoV-2 replication that causes COVID-19. Veklury is the first and only approved COVID-19 treatment (not vaccine) in the U.S.. The news announced that the drug is widely available in hospitals across the country. The …

Gilead and Galapagos Granted Marketing Authorization for Filgotinib by the EC Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Galapagos NV (

President Trump, the First Lady and COVID-19 Indeed, the complicated, nasty SARS-CoV-2 virus managed to infect President Trump and the First Lady when we were expecting a vaccine to soon be ready to protect the country and the world from COVID-19. The president’s physicians did not treat the him with any of the investigational vaccines in late-phase trials; vaccines being developed by: Moderna (MRNA), Novavax (NVAX) and …

Gilead Sciences News Is Not Just Gossip Real news, not just gossip, is spreading today about Gilead Sciences (GILD) nearing a deal to acquire the biotech firm Immunomedics (IMMU) for $20 billion. Immunomedics current market value is around $10 billion which means that Gilead is buying it at double its value. The deal could be announced on Monday, if not sooner, if the talks go …

Yesterday, under Today’s Highlights, we posted that the U.S. FDA issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) to Gilead Sciences (GILD) with regard to the New Drug Application (NDA) for filgotinib – the investigational treatment for moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in collaboration with Galapagos (GLPG). The FDA requested data from the ongoing MANTA and MANTA-RAy studies before completing its review of the NDA. …

Gilead Sciences Was Issued a CLR from the FDA for Filgotinib Gilead Sciences (GILD) is in receipt of a complete response letter (CRL) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the New Drug Application (NDA) for filgotinib, an investigational treatment for moderately . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Gilead Sciences CAR T Cell Product Tecartus Gets FDA Approval The U.S. FDA approved Kite - Gilead Sciences (GILD) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapyTecartus™ (brexucabtagene autoleucel). Tecartus has become the first and the only approved CAR T cell therapy for adults with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). The FDA approval of . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please …

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 …

Gilead Sciences and Galapagos NV Announce Good News from Filgotinib Trial Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Galapagos NV (

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 (

The Week in Review #50 The World FOCUS is COVID-19 The world FOCUS right now is on life-saving accomplishments for COVID-19. In addition to safety measures that are being adopted by most citizens the following realizations that accomplishments might lead to a clear victory over the life-threatening novel coronavirus. They are: Successful Treatments that will alleviate the severity of symptoms from COVID-19 that is causing …

Gilead Sciences Gilead (GILD) stock soared after market hours adding $11 to the $1.90 the stock had gained during trading hours. Investors’ enthusiasm was raised when very promising results came out of a clinical trial for Gilead’s drug remdesivir given to COVID-19 infected people.   According to the news the University of Chicago’s Phase 3 trial results demonstrated that most COVID-19 infected patients treated with …

A Comprehensive Essay  Part 4 Our fair evaluation approaches of biotechnology and biopharma companies differ depending on the sizes and statuses of the firms. We reiterate our conviction that causing a selloff of development stage biotech stocks at every announcement of quarterly financial results because of lack of income is irrelevant and unfair to the firms and their stockholders. It does not make sense that …

COVID-19 at Its Peak? The number of deaths from the COVID-19 outbreak in NYC are expected to peak soon. This expectation is coming from a prestigious trustworthy Washington University. The news also stated that Italy is turning the corner if it has not already turned it. They are reporting the lowest death toll for two weeks. France also reported a slowing of daily deaths while …

COVID-19 and the Nation's Hospitals Disagreeable news with regard to the nation's hospitals is their unpreparedness to face a sudden crisis, let alone an unexpected and unprecedented pandemic. The system the hospitals are running on has been causing problems for a some time now, not just since the Coronavirus pandemic. Since the COVID-19 cases have been rushed to hospitals many unwarranted, unacceptable, intolerable and dangerous …

The Week in Review #49 The Stars from the Weeks Preceding the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak  Forty Seven Forty Seven (FTSV) was added to the