Archive for July, 2017
Cryoport: Upping 2020 Price Target from $14.50 to $20.00 (CYRX, Buy, $6.89)
Overview Before reading this report, I would suggest reviewing my initriation report on Cryoport of April 12, 2017 and my update report of July 19, 2017. Without information contained in these reports, it might be difficult to put my comments in this note in perspective. Based on new guidance from CEO Jerry Shelton, it appears that […]
My Approach to Investing in CAR-T Drug Development: Cryoport (CYRX, Buy, $5.67)); Kite (KITE, Neutral, $104.34); Juno (JUNO, Neutral, $27.87), Novartis, (NVS, No opinion, $84.85)
Report Highlights The pending approval of Novartis’ Car-T drug tisagenlecleucel is the beginning of a new era of drugs based on manipulation of genes, most commonly referred to as gene therapy. This promises to be a new dynamic to biopharma drug development that will be a strong (the major?) driver of industry revenues for the […]
Cryoport: Thoughts About FDA AdCom Meeting on Novartis’s CAR-T Drug Tisagenlecleucel (CYRX, Buy, $4.86)
An FDA advisory committee will consider the BLA for Novartis’s CAR-T product tisagenlecleucel tomorrow, July 12th for the treatment of relapsed/ refractory acute lymphocytic leukemia. This will be the first FDA review of the new CAR-T products. I have spent some of today reading the FDA briefing documents for the members of the committee. There […]
Northwest Biotherapeutics: Why I Believe That the Phase 3 Trial of DCVax-L in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Patients Has a Very Good Chance for Success (NWBO, Buy, $0.17)
Overview This report is an extensive update on almost everything I know about the DCVax-L phase 3 trial and is over 20 pages long. The catalyst for this report was the recent information on the still blinded phase 3 trial presented in June at ASCO. It will take dedicated investors a great deal of time […]