Presenting UroGen Pharma UroGen Pharma (URGN) focuses on cancers and urologic diseases. It announced its fourth quarter and full-year ended December 31, 2019 financial results. The announcement started with Liz Barrett, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of UroGen who stated that the firm is waiting for the approval of its product UGN-101 designed and developed for low-grade upper . . . This content is for …

Vertex and Regeneron Will Survive the Coronavirus Market Vertex We picked Vertex (VRTX) on March 18, 2011 at $44.39. The stock closed at $218 at the end of 2019. It rallied in mid-February reaching $247.78 then the unexpected and unseen novel coronavirus started infecting the world. Our 2020 target is still $280. We decided upon this new target in . . . This content is …

COVID-19 and the Nation's Hospitals Disagreeable news with regard to the nation's hospitals is their unpreparedness to face a sudden crisis, let alone an unexpected and unprecedented pandemic. The system the hospitals are running on has been causing problems for a some time now, not just since the Coronavirus pandemic. Since the COVID-19 cases have been rushed to hospitals many unwarranted, unacceptable, intolerable and dangerous …

Exelixis, Takeda and Japanese RCC Patients Today we learned from Exelixis (EXEL) that Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, which is responsible for the clinical development and commercialization of Exelixis' oncology drug  CABOMETYX® (cabozantinib . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Coronavirus: The Possible Treatments While Moderna’s (MRNA) vaccine is being tested and its stock price continued to rise in the worst market performance day; other companies demonstrated readiness to bring their vaccines against the life-threatening virus into human clinical trials in the next few months. Regeneron (REGN) is one of the most trusted companies. In collaboration with Sanofi (SNY) the companies are on the top of …

A Market in Chaos The Market is in chaos. When this happens the market needs to be stopped from causing massive unwarranted harm to countries' economies, the firms and investors in the stock market. A healthy market does not drop over 2,500 points one day and then back up the same amount within the next few days. The current market is behaving like a drunk …

COVID-19, The Market Rebounding and the Biotech Firms That Did and Didn't Rally The Market Rebounding included: Amgen (AMGN), Biogen (

Stock Market Fluctuations and Volatility  Only history can remind us that what’s going on recently with the stock market is not new. Similar situations have taken place during the terms of every president since Ronald Reagan. Indeed, the same stock market's unexpected tumbling occurred during Reagan, Bush the father, Clinton, Bush the son, Obama and now Trump. As a matter of fact, history reminds us …

Compugen Soaring in an Extremely Down Market The stocks' prices tumbled today except for very few and one of them is Compugen (CGEN). This firm announced good news; we wish it has chosen a better day for its announcement. Compugen's stock managed to rally as investor's enthusiasm was unlimited; knowing, in fact, what the success of Compugen immuno . . . This content is for …

NanoViricides and COVID-19 NanoViricides (NNVC), a development-stage nano-biopharmaceutical company with a proprietary and patented drug development focused on viral diseases, is among the few firms that are actively working on developing products that can treat the coronavirus disease COVID-19 which is caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, or 2019-nCoV, now known also known as the . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to …

Treating and Preventing COVID-19 Treating COVID-19, Gilead Sciences With regard to treating patients with COVID-19 we believe the most expected product to be used during this virus' outbreak will be Gilead Sciences’ (GILD) product remdesivir. This product has reduced the severity of the coronavirus infection symptoms in animal testing and in a few . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to …

The Market Soared Being optimistic about the greatness of American scientific capability does not mean underestimating the coronavirus' ability to infect, devastate and threaten human lives. Today the market is rebounding from the fear that caused the stock market to plummet in this past week. The rebounding was strong enough to demonstrate that Americans trust their country’s scientific capabilities as well as their scientists’ and …

Gilead Sciences to Acquire Forty Seven Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Forty Seven (FTSV) announced today that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Gilead will acquire Forty Seven for $95.50 per share in cash. The transaction, which values Forty-Seven at approximately $4.9 billion, was unanimously approved by both the Gilead and Forty Seven Boards of Directors and is anticipated to close during the second quarter …

Moderna Therapeutics Among all the firms announcing their interest in working towards designing and producing a preventive vaccine for COVID-19 only Moderna (MRNA) has accomplished that job and delivered it to the health authorities to decide upon the next step. Moderna’s stock soared. The stock did not go up in expectation of the millions . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

COVID-19 and the Stock Market The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is the topic that swallowed all other topics this week. The virus is spreading to many countries around the world. Some media interpreted the CDC's warnings as being in direct conflict with the President while others showed understanding that the impact on the U.S. has so far been mild but the virus helped reveal the power …

Regeneron, Moderna, and COVID-19 The spread of COVID-19, minute creatures that seem to be trying to defeat us, has been accused of bringing the market down over 1000 points yesterday. Investors who love the biotech stocks they carefully and accurately hand-picked should take advantage of the temporary market drop to buy more of their preferred stocks at bargain prices. In so doing, the cost of …

Gilead and Moderna Stocks Will Outperform Today As stated in Prohost Letter #439 Gilead (GILD) investigational product remdesivir has offered hope towards treating infected people with COVID-19. Regarding the possibility of rapidly designing, creating and developing a preventive vaccine against COVID-19 Moderna Therapeutics (MRNA) seems to have accomplished this task. That’s why we were confident that Gilead’s and Moderna’s stocks will outperform today in a …

CRISPR, Intellia and Editas CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP) announced revenues of Q4 2019 that beat analysts’ expectations. Based on the good news the stock market’s technicians contributed to boosting the stock’s price enabling the stock to recuperate a large part of its unwarranted recent selloff losses. New investors, who finally heard about the CRISPR gene editing technique and the Companies that specialize in it, seem to …

Cassava Sciences From  NEWSWIRE we learned that Cassava Sciences (SAVA), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focusing on Alzheimer’s disease, announced that The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (JPAD), a peer-reviewed journal for the research community, has published results from the Company’s Phase 2a study; its drug PTI-125

Moderna Therapeutics’ Stock Price Soared, Then Gave Back Its Gains in Two Consecutive Days To begin with, most, if not all, development-stage firms are yo-yo games played by day traders and investors whose strategies are buying low and selling high. These people also buy and sell on encouraging news and bad news; if their eyes happen to fall on any fundamental news.   One of …