Tag: Agenus (AGEN)

Xoma: The Considered Dead is Alive and Kicking. Gilead is Way Undervalued

The Diagnosed Dead Is Far from Dying Xoma (XOMA) : Stock rallied following report announcing an upfront payment from  Novartis , which multiplied the firm’s revenues 10 times over 2014. Novartis paid Xoma $37 million, Novo Nordisk paid $5 million...

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March 11, 2016

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Prohost Letter #393

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...

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March 4, 2016

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Agenus First Immune Check Protein Inhibitor in Clinical Trial. See Also: IMGN and EXEL

Biotech N E W S   AGENUS Agenus’ First Checkpoint Inhibitor to reach Clinical Trial The first patient has been dosed in Agenus (AGEN) Phase 1 clinical trial of its checkpoint inhibitor product AGEN1884. The open-label, multicenter trial in patients...

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April 27, 2016

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Prohost Letter #395

Prohost Letter #395 On the Road TO DEFEATING CANCER -  Results of cancer treatment with novel immunotherapy drugs suggest that the hope of conquering cancer has improved from doubtful to conceivable. Immunotherapy treatments are scoring unprecedented successes against a wide...

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May 4, 2016

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Prohost Letter #412 Part 3

Prohost Letter #412 Part 3 GLIOBLASTOMA -  Is There Hope? Senator John McCain was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, glioblastoma – the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. The cancer is so aggressive that most surgeries did...

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August 3, 2017

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Good News for Agenus and for Global Blood Therapeutics

Agenus (AGEN) announced that a lead product candidate is selected under its license and research collaboration with Merck, which is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada. Merck has selected a lead antibody candidate and several backup antibodies,...

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June 10, 2016

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Disrupting the Capability of Cancer Cells to Repair Their Damaged DNA. See Also: Underestimated Biotech Firms

Underestimating the Value of Drugs that Disrupt the DNA Repair Mechanisms in Cancer Cells. AstraZeneca’s (AZN) Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said that while DNA damage response was under-recognized by investors, oncologists were already “very excited” by its potential of the drugs...

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May 16, 2016

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Accelerated FDA Approvals of Immunotherapy Treatments Are Accelerating

CANCER Everyday something new is discovered that explains cancer behavior, including proliferation, response to treatment, resistance to treatment, metastasis, recurrence, etc. Today we have several news, including one that might have cleared a puzzle regarding a continuous growth of colon...

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May 19, 2016

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Agenus Has Good News

Agenus (AGEN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee voted unanimously, recommending the approval of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) shingles vaccine candidate, Shingrix, containing Agenus' proprietary immune adjuvant, QS-21 Stimulon®. This is good news for Agenus. As Garo...

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September 15, 2017

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Le CompaGnon Part 1

Le Compa G non Part 1 TUESDAY June 14, 2016 The Eternal Market Games Unfortunately, the fabrication and misrepresentation of reality in media articles about member firms of the biotech sector succeeded in devastating promising companies having exceptional technologies and...

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June 14, 2016

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