Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceutical AKEEGA Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) owned Janssen Pharmaceutical announced that the U.S. FDA has approved AKEEGA™ (niraparib and abiraterone acetate), the first-and-only dual action tablet combining a PARP inhibitor with abiraterone acetate, given with prednisone for adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), which no longer responds to androgen deprivation therapy and has spread to other …

Halozyme Therapeutics Announced US FDA Approval for Janssen Biotech's DARZALEX FASPRO® Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO) announced that Janssen Biotech, Inc. (Janssen) received U.S. FDA approval of DARZALEX FASPRO® (daratumumab + hyaluronidase-fihj) in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone (Pd) for adult patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior line of therapy, including . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to …

ViiV Healthcare Announced FDA Approval for Cabenuva for Adults with HIV-1 From London we learned that ViiV Healthcare announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Cabenuva, the first and only complete long-acting regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults. ViiV Healthcare is a global HIV company majority-owned by GlaxoSmithKline (

Theravance Biopharma: Near-Term Game-Changing PDUFAS Some of the Prohost Portfolio selected companies are having near term PDUFAS which we believe will have a positive outcome. Indeed we expect the FDA approvals to tremendously boost these firms’ values. In Part 1 we chose Halozyme (HALO) and PTC Therapeutics (

Presenting Fate Therapeutics Today we are presenting Fate Therapeutics (FATE); a clinical-stage company developing programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer and immune disorders. Our enthusiasm for this firm is due to its announcement that it signed a global collaboration agreement with the Johnson & Johnson (

From the American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU) Prostate Cancer A presentation by Bayer demonstrated improvement in the treatment of non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Separate presentations by Bristol-Myers and Janssen also demonstrated improvement in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Non-Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer Bayer Results from pivotal Phase 3 ARAMIS trial with Bayer’s (BAYRY) and Orion Corporation’s jointly-developed product darolutamide plus …

A Stanford research team investigating a new immunotherapy approach, which consists of injecting tiny amounts of two immuno-stimulating molecules directly into the cancers themselves, announced good news. The first of the two injections contained a CpG oligonucleotide a short stretch of DNA that promotes the expression of OX40, a protein that resides on the surface of the immune system’s T cells. The second injection comprised an antibody that binds …