The Comprehensive Prohost Letter Issues The Comprehensive Prohost Letter Issues will constitute a chain of 7 issues. Today’s issue will include the following: Pinpointing and selecting the biotech firms that demonstrate readiness to treat untreatable, devastating diseases. Presenting an important antibody cocktail for the treatment of COVID-19. Stating our position regarding the Alzheimer’s disease firm Cassava Sciences. Pinpointing Prohost’s . . . This content is …

Jounce Therapeutics Jounce Therapeutics (JNCE) is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing therapies enabling the immune system to attack tumors and provide long-lasting benefits to patients through a biomarker-driven approach. Jounce has ongoing multiple development stage programs while simultaneously advancing additional early-stage assets from its robust discovery engine based on its Translational Science. Jounce Therapeutics Lead Products

Jounce Therapeutics Inc: US FDA Cleared IND Application for JTX-1811 Targeting CCR8 Jounce Therapeutics Inc (JNCE) - a clinical-stage company focused on the discovery and development of novel cancer immunotherapies and predictive biomarkers, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its product JTX-1811, an anti-CCR8 antibody.

As we wrote yesterday, immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors represent a great advancement and big changes in the management of cancer. It is pertinent, though, to keep in mind that these immuno-oncology products will not be successful with all cancers. Immune checkpoint inhibitors Keytruda (Merck) and Obdivo, Bristol-Myers Squibb and others are already approved around the world for several cancers. We also know that these immunotherapy products …

Today, Jounce Therapeutics has begun trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol (JNCE).  The Company, which focuses on the discovery and development of novel cancer immunotherapies and predictive biomarkers, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 6,365,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $16.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $101,840,000. In addition, Jounce granted the underwriters …

GILEAD (GILD) One analyst who aimed at bringing only the negatives about biotech has finally succeeded in convincing other critics and media bloggers that Gilead would not be good for investment until the firm acquires a company that can expand its meager oncology franchise. His story became the melody hummed by every blogger, ignoring the fact that the firm’s revenues and income have doubled overnight …

Prohost Letter #393 IMMUNOTHERAPY - PROHOST PORTFOLIO - NEW PICKS? - A Brief Reminder of the CAR T –TCR Immunotherapy Approaches In this issue we continue our journey inside the territory of cancer immunotherapy. We remind that in the Prohost Letter issue #391, we dealt with the immunotherapy based on genetically engineered T Cells, enabling them to seek out, attack and neutralize cancer cells. The immune system’s T …

Prohost Letter #375 Part 1 BIOTECHNOLOGY: THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA STATE- OF-THE-ART APPROACHES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC AND DEADLY DISEASES ARE IN HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS We are encouraged by some novel treatments for chronic diseases and cancer and we are optimistic about results coming from their early- and late-phase trials. Picking advanced therapeutics is the magic word Sesame in the formula “Open Sesame”, which, …