ARMO Biosciences (ARMO) listed in January 2018 at $17 per share. The company had a phase III pancreatic cancer drug in AMO010, a recombinant form of human interleukin 10 (IL-10). There is no effective drug to treat pancreatic cancer. AMO010 […]
Eiger Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:EIGR), a company developing treatment for rare diseases, which often are reimbursed at a premium price, published a study on April 24, 2018, indicating the effectiveness of its drug, lonafarnib, to treat Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS). The disease […]
MyoKardia (NASDAQ:MYOK), a leading precision cardiovascular medicine company, reported good data during 2015-16 on its drug, mavacamten, to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a condition that reduces the rate of heart contractions because of the thickening of surrounding heart muscles. Mavacamten, […]
Dynavax’s (NASDAQ:DVAX) BLA application for its Hepatitis B vaccine first received a complete response letter from the FDA in 2013 and then experienced further regulatory delays between 2015-2016. Some of the FDA requests involved the vaccine’s overall immunogenicity data, while […]
California-based company Zogenix (NASDAQ:ZGNX) observed the drug fenfluramine, which had problematic side effects in obesity, and demonstrated it could work to prevent seizures. At a time when GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH) and Insys Therapeutics (INSY) were advancing cannabidiol (CBD)-based drugs to […]