Tag: Merck (MRK)

Treating Cancers Resistant to ALL Drugs a Priority for Researchers. See What Merck and Kintara Have Done

Merck and Kintara in the NEWS Treating cancers that have no treatments should be a priority for researchers to create a treatment for them.  Patients who are afflicted with untreatable deadly diseases might not have a single drop of hope in survival  from these untreatable cancers. In yesterday's news, we fell on a treatment by Merck that demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in …

Why the FDA Accepted to Review Merck’s KEYTRUDA (sBLA) for The Treatment of HER2 Negative Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Merck in the NEWS Merck (MRK) announced that the U.S. FDA has accepted for review a new supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) seeking approval for KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of HER2 negative patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma. The American Agency's acceptance of . . . This content is …

Merck: KEYTRUDA Plus Chemo as First-Line Treatment for Stage III-IV or Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma

Merck KEYTRUDA Announcement Merck (MRK) announced today that Phase 3 NRG-GY018 trial evaluating KEYTRUDA in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with stage III-IV or recurrent endometrial carcinoma regardless of mismatch repair status. NRG-GY018 is a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled Phase 3 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov, 

Acquired by Merck or Not, Seagen Will, Sooner or Later, Outperform

Is Merck to Acquire Seagen? The Wall Street Journal reported that Merck is in advanced talks to buy Seagen in a deal that could be worth $40 billion or more. The report, cited by people familiar with the matter, said that the companies are discussing a price above $200 a share for SGEN. It is said that the acquisition will help Merck boost its products …

Comprehensive Prohost Letter #448

Comprehensive Prohost Letter Issues Coronavirus Variant Omicron A lot has happened since the coronavirus variant Omicron was discovered in South Africa. After having been responsible for a severe plummeting of the stock market, Omicron boosted the market after being described by many scientists as fast spreading with different yet milder symptoms when compared to those caused by SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and …

Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics: U.S. Government to Purchase 1.4 M Additional Courses of Molnupiravir for COVID-19

U.S. Government to Purchase More of Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Molnupiravir for COVID-19 Merck (MRK) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that the United States government will exercise two of its options to purchase a total of 1.4 million additional courses of molnupiravir - an investigational oral antiviral medicine, if the medicine is granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or . . . This content is for paid …

Why Merck’s Stock Price Soared. See Also: Pulmotect Inhaled PUL-042 for Respiratory Symptoms of COVID-19 and Fujirebio Agreement with ADDF

Merck Stock Soared Great expectations for Merck (MRK) future growth and the future of novel treatments for patients with severe devastating and life-threatening diseases. Keytruda - Merck's cancer immunotherapy drug, has reached a milestone and molnupiravir - its COVID-19 pill, sales revenues are expected to generate $5 billion to $7 billion through 2022, subject to emergency use authorization, at the end of November 2021. The …

Gilead Sciences and Merck Initiate Phase 2 Study Evaluating Lenacapavir and Islatravir for HIV-1

Gilead Sciences and Merck Collaboration to Develop Long-Acting HIV Treatment  Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Merck (MRK) announced the start of a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating an investigational, once-weekly oral combination treatment regimen of islatravir and lenacapavir in people living with HIV who are virologically suppressed on antiretroviral therapy. From Gilead Sciences and Merck Jared Baeten, MD, PhD, Vice President, HIV Clinical Development, Gilead Sciences, …

Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Announced Successful Phase 3 Trial Results of Molnupiravir for Mild or Moderate COVID-19

Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics COVID-19 News  Merck (MRK) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics today announced that molnupiravir (MK-4482, EIDD-2801) - an investigational oral antiviral medicine, has significantly reduced the risk of hospitalization or death at a planned interim analysis of the Phase 3 MOVe-OUT trial in at risk, non-hospitalized . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Sutro Biopharma: First Quarter Financial Results, Business Highlights and More

Sutro Biopharma Inc Sutro Biopharma (STRO) is a clinical-stage drug discovery, development and manufacturing company. Its expertise is in the application of precise protein engineering and rational design to create next-generation cancer and autoimmune therapeutics. Sutro Biopharma reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2021 and its recent business highlights, in addition to providing a preview of anticipated selected . . . This content …

Inovio DNA Vaccine Candidate INO-4800 has Promising Results. Read Also: Sutro Biopharma Good News

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Promising Results for INO-4800 for COVID-19 Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO) announces promising results of a study focusing on the human immune responses induced by Inovio DNA vaccine candidate, INO-4800, against COVID-19, and variants of concern. The results demonstrated that INO-4800 induced a robust T . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

A Flashback and Future Projections

Prohost Letter #445 A Flashback and Future Projections 1. A Follow-Up on Recently Posted News from ProhostBiotech 2. Answering Questions 3. Development-Stage Firms to Outperform 4. Oversold Revenue-Generating Firms 5. Tables with FAIR 2021 Targets for the Prohost Selected Firms In This Issue We Discuss the Following Firms: Anixa Biosciences (

Immutep Ltd: Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Eftilagimod Alpha in Combination with Merck’s KEYTRUDA

Immutep Ltd and Merck Announce Second Clinical Trial Collaboration Immutep (IMMP) develops novel immunotherapy treatments for cancer, infectious disease and autoimmune diseases. Today, Immutep announced a second clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Merck & Co (MRK) subsidiaries, Kenilworth, NJ, USA (known as “MSD” outside the United States and Canada). Immutep will conduct a new Phase IIb clinical trial in 1st line head and …

Is There a Possible Comeback for Nektar Therapeutics?

Nektar Therapeutics YoYoing Stock Price Investors who exaggerate their enthusiasm, or their apathy, towards buying and selling biotechnology stocks have sent the Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) stock price to the Moon but wasted no time bringing it back to Earth. This, of course, after we fell in love with it and selected it for investment purposes. We witnessed the stock reach near $80 only . . …

Merck Has Interesting News and Impressive Results

Merck Discontinues Development of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Merck (MRK) known as MSD outside the United States and Canada announced yesterday that the company is discontinuing the development of its SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccine candidates, V590 and V591. This decision follows Merck’s review of findings from Phase 1 clinical studies for the vaccines. In these studies, both V590 . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Moderna’s Future Growth

Moderna Inc COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Moderna Inc (MRNA) announced the completion of the case accrual for the first interim analysis of Phase 3 COVE study of mRNA-1273, its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The firm announced a significant increase in the rate of case identification across sites in the last week. As a result, the Company expects the first interim analysis will include substantially more than 53 …