Results from trials were negative in two phase 2 studies for Gilead (GILD) experimental drug GS-4997 (selonsertib) intended to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and diabetic kidney disease (DKD). But the same drug selonsertib showed it might hit the jackpot when results demonstrated it succeeded in treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is also known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, where, according to Gilead, it showed …

GILEAD & GENMAB To Access Genmab’s (GEN) bispecific antibody technology, Gilead (GILD) signed a new agreement with Genmab. The King of HIV treatment objective is to use its exclusive license from Genmab to produce an HIV bispecific monoclonal antibody therapeutic. Gilead is paying around $5 million in upfront payment and up to $277 million in milestones. Genmab will also be entitled to one-digit royalty of …

The Royal Divorce On Sunday, the next day after the announcement of the British referendum’s results, a turbulence in the stock markets was in the making by professionals who cited all kind of pessimistic likelihoods and negative projections that England divorce will cause havoc, devastating the stock markets for months, and maybe for years to come. On Monday, the markets were, indeed, devastated and the …

GILEAD After years of controversial refraining, official India reversed course and granted Gilead Sciences its patent rights to Sovaldi hepatitis C treatment. More than a victory for Gilead, it was the prevalence of fairness after years of underestimating the power to fairness to keep resurfacing until reinstated. The Indian Patent Office had rejected Gilead’s patent application based on a notion that it did not demonstrate …

GILEAD SCIENCES The people who cause the selloff of Gilead’s (GILD) stock because it missed 5 cents are the same who continue to complain about the high price of its HCV drug. This is intriguing because those who advocated selling the stock said that the reason for the miss is the huge discounts the firm is making on the drug price. Gilead is the undisputed …

Pursuing its goal in treating hepatitis, Gilead Sciences (GILD) is at the finish line of clinical trials on another virus, this time the Hepatitis B virus. HBV not HCV. Two large Phase 3 trials evaluating once-daily tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) 25 mg in treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced adults with HBeAg-negative and HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection met the primary endpoints of non-inferiority to Gilead’s Viread® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) 300 mg.  …

Many in Wall Street have been anxious, sitting on fire while waiting to learn, which biotech company Gilead Sciences (GILD) would decide upon acquiring that would deepen and enhance its pipeline. In Today’s news, a firm called Nimbus Therapeutics, LLC today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement under which terms Gilead will acquire Nimbus Apollo, Inc., a Nimbus Therapeutics wholly-owned subsidiary. Important is that the acquisition …

Prohost Letter #394 Part 1 Gilead - Some people sold Gilead’s (GILD) stock on Wednesday, March 23 after news announced on Tuesday that a jury decided that Gilead has infringed on two HCV molecules patents that Ionis (IONS), formerly Isis, and Merck had secured from their research. Ionis CEO said in a press release that his firm and Merck used their expertise during their collaboration in …

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 and Pfizer paid the firm a little less than $4 million. CEO John Varian said, “Novel antibodies and technologies created by XOMA scientists to target diseases such as …

Prohost Letter #392 February 28, 2016 - How could it be possible for any genius to make intelligent guesses about the market's next moves when highly regarded experts, including Nobel Prize winners in economics, remained quizzical about the recent horrifying performances of publicly traded stocks? Since the beginning of 2016, the stock market has been made to look as if a runaway train with many passengers …

Gilead Sciences Gilead (GILD) Shareholders wouldn’t expect to watch short investors make billions of dollars going against Gilead during this firm’s most glorious times. We never imagined negative analysts could have the capability of persuading millions of shareholders to sell and cause a selloff of the most productive, most growing, most achieving and extremely well run biotech company. Gilead reported quarterly earnings and revenue on …

Improving the management of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases has been a dream that seems to be happening slowly but surely in the past years. The improvement has gained energy and speed in 2015. The advancement in treatments has been demonstrated on several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Crohn’s disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and many other autoimmune diseases. Psoriasis   …

On Oct. 28, 2015, Gilead Sciences (GILD) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for an investigational, once-daily fixed-dose combination of the approved nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir (Sovaldi®) abbreviated as (SOF) and the investigational pan-genotypic NS5A inhibitor velpatasvir, abbreviated as (VEL) for the treatment of chronic genotype 1-6 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The NDA was supported by …

The market looks like angry, probably very angry, as stocks are in a severe selloff mood. There will be many explanations like usual, but it is difficult for us to speculate this time over the correctness of the offered explanations, including the Iran Saudi Arabia crisis, which led to an increase in the oil price whose decrease has caused the previous market’s bad mood. Like …

Prohost Letter #386 An Evaluation of Prohost Picks and Some Other Interesting Biotechnology Companies (Part 2) (Continued from Previous Prohost Letter #385) See Page Listening to Top-tier biotech firms’ presentations we could not resist appreciating their accomplishments, which made us dare to predict that the time has come for the self-serving preachers to find it extremely hard to convince shareholders to to sell stocks of …

The FDA issued a warning that hepatitis C treatment Viekira Pak and Technivie can cause serious side effects and serious liver injury, mostly in patients with underlying advanced liver disease. The drugs in question belong to AbbVie (ABBV) with some of their  ingredients made by Enanta (ENTA), both were subjected to selloffs after the news, in addition to Express Script (ESRX) Holding, which  operates as a …

Prohost Letter #385 An Evaluation of Prohost Picks and Some Other Interesting Biotechnology Companies The Top-Tier Group The indiscriminate attack on the biotech sector impacted the best biotech firms more than it did the worst. In other words, the attack devastated the undervalued, without correcting the stock price of overvalued, or even valueless, firms. The problem is that those who instigate computer programs selling of …

Stories from Yesterday’s Market We are not claiming that the market volatility has subsided and the leadership has shown and is in full control of the chaos. But yesterday biotech stock performance made us feel that investors are regaining their common sense and trying to benefit from the catastrophic plummeting of the member firms stock prices. Today’s trading seems negative for the biotech stocks, but …

Prohost Letter #384 The Assassination of the Biotech Sector The Market (Part 2) On Friday September 18, 2015, the biotechnology sector occupied the news headlines for two different reasons. The first was the sudden unexplicable and unexpected plummeting of the biotech sector. The stocks were flying sky high until modday and suddenly, all the biotech stocks, without exception, took a dive. The second reason was the triumph of …

Prohost Letter #383 The Market - Recent tails about the market and the biotech sector are true thrillers. By true we mean no-fiction. The accounts lack common sense. Professionals' interpretations of the stocks' and of the market's moves are bizarre and misleading. General investors complain only when the stocks' volatility gets out of hand, yet, do not object to the hype, or interferes against the baseless …