Category: Today’s Highlights

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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A Quick Opinion on the CRISPR Patenting Story. Gillead's Improvement of HIV Treatment

About the CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Patent Shareholders of biotechnology firms specialized in CRISPR gene editing technology are in a state of confusion regarding the technology's patents. The confusion is caused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) decision to...

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February 17, 2017

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals: The Expected Good News on March 31, 2016

Of the Upcoming Game-Changing Actions THE EXPECTED FDA APPROVAL OF JAZZ DRUG DEFIBROTIDE On March 31,  the   FDA is expected to decide on the approval of  Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ (JAZZ)   drug  defibrotide.  The drug is for patients with hepatic...

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March 10, 2016

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Exelixis: Speeding Towards Becoming a Top-Tier Biopharmaceutical

Watching the outperformance of the new approaches for cancer immunotherapies, especially the checkpoint inhibitors and other immunotherapy successful attempts, oncologists recognized that the ultimate efficacy of empowering the immune system to fight cancer will be reached when immunotherapy products are...

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February 21, 2017

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Academic Researchers Improve on CAR-T Immunotherapy. Guess Who the Beneficiaries Are?

Making Sure that CAR-T Therapy for Cancer Succeeds Academic Researchers Identify a New Process to Raise Natural Armies of Cancer-Targeting T Lymphocytes Outside the Body Unleashing More Power to the Immune System to Fight All Types of Cancers GOOD NEWS...

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February 23, 2017

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Illumina: A Great Transformation and Transition

As we kept describing it,   Illumina’s (ILMN) is the engine behind the   biological revolution reflected in the current existence of treatments, which aim at targets that were unknown before this firm enabled discovering them. Illumina’s establishing and launching...

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March 8, 2016

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Immune Design: Encouraging News About Treating Allergic Diseases

Preparing a Prohost Letter dedicated to immunotherapy and the firms that are behind the promising novel approaches towards enabling the immune system to treat, or cure diseases if possible, we fell on other genius approaches. In recent Prohost Letters, we...

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March 4, 2016

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Incyte: A Thoughtful Research and Collaboration Agreement with Abramson Cancer Center

Incyte Announces a Multi-year Research Collaboration with the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania . The aim of the agreement with Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania as Incyte (INCY) stated in the press release is...

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February 24, 2017

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Baxalta Revolutionizes Its Pipeline with Immunotherapy Products

Baxalta (BXLT)   and Precision BioSciences a genome editing company announced a global collaboration to develop a broad series of  allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T  cell therapies directed towards areas of major unmet need in multiple cancers. CAR T...

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February 26, 2016

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Breakthrough Drugs of the Week

Recent Breakthrough Designated Products CANCER Acute Myeloid Leukemia PKC412 (midostaurin) developed by  Novartis AG (NVS)  is an oral, multi-targeted kinase inhibitor for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with FLT3 mutations . It is also being studied for aggressive  systemic mastocytosis/mast cell...

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February 23, 2016

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