INOVIO Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO) is much worth looking at now than 6 months ago. The deal signed between MedImmune, AstraZeneca’s development arm, and Inovio Pharmaceuticals says something. The DEAL MedImmune acquired exclusive rights to Inovio’s INO-3112 immunotherapy against cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, which account for more than 70 percent of cervical pre-cancers and cancers. INO-3112 is in Phase 1/2 clinical …

In The NEWS IMMUNOTHERAPY MIRATI THERAPEUTICS Mirati Therapeutics (MRTX) is an oncology company focusing on genetic and epigenetic drivers of cancer. The firm’s clinical stage product candidates include MGCD265, a multi-targeted kinase inhibitor that is in Phase 1b clinical development trials for the treatment of solid tumors, including lung, head and neck, and gastric cancers; MGCD516, a kinase inhibitor, which is in Phase 1 clinical …