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 …

The Week in Review #28 The approval of revolutionary products created by biotech firms with solid scientific fundamentals, superior scientists and advanced technologies is what motivates us to pick for investment biotech and biopharmaceutical firms. So, let’s see what has been approved in the parting week  from firms that we picked for investment.       IMPORTANT APPROVALS       Prohost Picked Firm     …

We reiterate that undeniably outstanding news about gene therapy is taking time to penetrate investors’ ears. They are still falling victim to bad rules of thumb and critics’ magnifications of the negative impact of some stocks’ dilution when companies with superior programs try to finance through a public offering. The stocks’ punishments following financing is not a rule to apply to all firms, especially those …

WE ARE LIVING AN HISTORIC BIOLOGICAL REVOLUTION. Unfortunately, the undeniably outstanding news has not yet penetrated the ears of many investors. They are still falling victim to the stock market traders’ games and to critics’ and bloggers’ magnifications or fabrications of negative news. Many investors end up selling their thoughtfully chosen highly scientific biotech firms to regret later on what they have done when their …

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) and bluebird bio, Inc. (BLUE) announced a collaboration to apply their respective technology platforms to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel immune cell therapies for cancer. The collaborators will specifically leverage Regeneron’s VelociSuite® platform technologies for the discovery of human antibodies as well as T cell receptors (TCRs) directed against tumor-specific proteins and peptides, and bluebird bio will contribute its field-leading expertise in gene transfer and …

ProhostLetter #423 TOMORROW’S THERAPEUTICS TODAY For a more or less fair evaluation of biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms, analysts currently rely for their assessment on criteria that include quarterly financial results, products’ sales revenues, and year over year growth of each and every marketed therapeutic. When it comes to clinical-stage firms, the logic implies that these criteria cannot be relied on for evaluation, as most of …

Novartis’ (NVS) financials results exceeded analysts’ expectations. The firm’s research institutions’ strategy, well-designed structure, plans for innovation and accurate execution led to a wealthy and competitive pipeline with more than 200 projects in clinical development. Novartis is flying into the future finding its way to more effective treatments and possible cures. As a matter of fact, Novartis is at the end of the road towards …

On May 25, in Prohost Letter Issue #421, we wrote about RegenxBio (RGNX), which from behind the scenes it created several gene therapy products that are being used by AveXis, a firm that was recently acquired by Novartis based on its successful pipeline products. In the article (please read it if you missed it and read it again if you forgot it, or were not …

Prohost Letter #422 SUMMARY OF THE PAST ISSUE ARTICLE - REVISITING PROMISING FIRMS (PART1) - The firms we tackled in the past issue comprised: 1. Firms we liked and added to our portfolio. 2. Firms we posted their good news, but did not select... 

Prohost Letter #421 PRIVATE  LESSONS - Stock prices of publicly-­traded biotech companies oscillate for the same reasons other industries’ stock prices swing all day long. The fluctuations are the outcome of investors’ and daily traders’ unrelenting buying and selling . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or log in.

Prohost Letter #416 Part 2 2017 - A YEAR OF BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES, BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCTS, IMPROVEMENTS ON PROMISING BREAKTHROUGH TREATMENTS, DECIPHERING IMPORTANT LIFE SCIENCE MYSTERIES, PINPOINTING BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS FOR TREATMENT RESISTANCE, MIRACLE CURES, AND… A LOT OF DISTORTED NEGATIVE INTERPRETATIONS - Prioritizing our choices of breakthroughs has been a dilemma . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or log in.

COLLABORATIONS Preparing for the Future, Biogen Signs a Lucrative Collaborative Agreements While Highlighting the Small Firm REGENXBIO Pursuing gene therapy, Biogen (BIIB) announced collaborations with two gene therapy experts from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a gene therapy technology licensing deal with THE small gene therapy firm RegenxBio (RGNX). The deal will allow Biogen to license RegenxBio proprietary NAV Technology Platform for the …