Tag: MD Anderson

Why Cassava Sciences Stock Opened Down Today. See Also: The Mirati Therapeutics and MD Anderson Collaboration

Cassava Sciences Inc Opened Down Today Cassava Sciences, Inc. (SAVA) - a clinical-stage biotech firm focused on the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with several healthcare-focused, and other institutional investors, for the purchase of 4,081,633 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $49.00 per share for . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Amgen’s KRAS G12C Inhibitor Product Sotorasib Has Thrilling Results

Amgen and the KRAS G12C Protein Discovery The RAS gene family has been a subject for four decades of research. The family contains some of the most frequently mutated oncogenes in human cancers. Targeting the KRAS protein, the most commonly altered family member in solid tumors, has been the toughest and most challenging in oncology research. A specific mutation known as KRAS G12C is a major driver …
The FDA Grants Fast Track Status to DelMar Pharmaceuticals’ Product VAL-083

The FDA Grants Fast Track Status to DelMar Pharmaceuticals’ Product VAL-083

The FDA Grants Fast Track Status to DelMar Pharmaceuticals’ Product VAL-083 Dec.26, 2017 – DelMar Pharmaceuticals (DMPI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the company’s lead product candidate, VAL-083, in recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM). This Fast Track status applies to two ongoing clinical trials sponsored by DelMar Pharmaceuticals to evaluate VAL-083 as a potential treatment for rGBM.  These trials include: …
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals: Bringing Hope for Patients with EGFR Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer with Exon 20 Insertion Mutations

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals: Bringing Hope for Patients with EGFR Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer with Exon 20 Insertion Mutations

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (SPPI) announced an oral presentation of interim data from a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating the pan-HER inhibitor poziotinib in EGFR Exon 20 Mutant Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) by scientists from the MD Anderson Cancer Center. The data were presented at the 18th IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer in Yokohama, Japan on October 15-18, 2017. The trial results from Poziotinib demonstrated evidence of significant anticancer activity in NSCLC …
Developing Another Better CAR Using NK Cells Instead of T Cells. Nektar Has Great News

Developing Another Better CAR Using NK Cells Instead of T Cells. Nektar Has Great News

IMPROVING ON CAR IMMUNOTHERAPY APPROACH  When we stated that chimeric antigen receptor CAR immunotherapy process was created to remain and improve, we aimed at demonstrating our conviction that the CAR approach will eventually be improved and become the gold standard for the treatment of many cancers. We observed that many research and medical institutions are using all advanced information, state-of-the-art techniques and technologies in order …
Prohost Letter #407

Prohost Letter #407

Prohost Letter #407 AT A GLANCE - Firms Added to Prohost Portfolio PROHOST IS PICKING NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES   On March 27, a few days before the FDA approves Neurocrine’s (NBIX) drug Ingrezza, (valbenazine) capsules for adults with tardive dyskinesia (TD), we posted an article titled “Time for Transformation and Achievements”. In the article, we stated that Neurocrine Sciences Ingrezza will highlight Neurocrine Biosciences and its …
CytomX Therapeutics: A Noteworthy Expansion of Collaborative Agreement with BMY

CytomX Therapeutics: A Noteworthy Expansion of Collaborative Agreement with BMY

Everybody knows Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), but just a few may know anything about CytomX Therapeutics (CTMX), or about its Probody Program. CytomX is a small, develop-ment-stage firm that created platform known as the Probody Program, which leads to the creation of first in class Probody therapeutics. These therapeutics are meant to overcome safety and efficacy problems encountered by the antibodies that are currently used in …
Le CompaGnon Part 2

Le CompaGnon Part 2

Le CompaGnon Part 2 Wednesday June 22, 2016 From the  American Society of  Clinical  Oncology (ASCO)               Checkpoint inhibitors the CAR T Approach Adoptive cell therapy Oncolytic virus therapy Therapeutic vaccines Cytokines. Le CompaGnon Part 1 dealt with: - The two firms, MERK and BMY, who were the first to get approvals of their checkpoint inhibitors. These two . . . This content is for paid …
Prohost Letter #391

Prohost Letter #391

Prohost Letter #391 Frightened by the Market and Politicians’ Debates, Not the Drug Industry, Investors are Fleeing the Biotechnology Sector  1. A fruitless debate over the high prices of drugs 2. The low price of oil, the world’s dream for decades, is now considered a disaster for the world economy? 1. The High Drug Price Debate Again, as in past presidential debates, politicians have chosen an …