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Introduction My approach to my website in the two years I have been publishing is to in-depth research on a limited number of emerging biotechnology companies. To date, I have seldom written on companies on which I have not done a comprehensive analysis. However, I have done work on numerous other companies and sometimes have […]

Incyte’s expertise in clinical development and commercialization of cancer drugs is a perfect complement to Agenus’ product development capabilities for antibodies used for checkpoint modulation. The combined companies present one of the most powerful development efforts in the highly promising field of checkpoint modulation. Agenus is the only pure play in this area, which is […]

Overview This has been a tough year for many small emerging biotechnology firms. Many have been in a bear market while the market as a whole had a reasonable year. The group did very well in 2013 and early 2014 and kept pace with strong price performance by the larger biotechnology companies. In March of […]

UK designates DCVax-L as first drug to be considered for early access approval under recently enacted EAMS program. Earlier this year, Germany granted approval to DCVax-L under its early access program. Early access means that DCVax-L can be prescribed prior to formal approval that might come in 2016. I expect revenues from German sales in […]

DCVax Direct was used in a patient with stage 4 pancreatic cancer whose chemotherapy was stopped. The patient, a Nat Geo employee, is stable at 18 months post diagnosis and gives his very positive view of the efficacy of DCVax Direct. Clinical studies show that 50% of such stage 4 pancreatic patients die within six […]

Inovio’s Immunotherapy Technology Base Over two decades ago, the creation of naked DNA vaccines gave the promise of a significant advance in the development of both therapeutic and preventative vaccines. The concept was to incorporate genes in a plasmid that would express certain antigens.  These would then trigger an effective immune response that could be […]

Who Is Richard Pearson? On July 7, I was the subject of a vicious and libelous article that was published on Seeking Alpha by a person named Richard Pearson. As a way of introduction to Pearson, let’s look at his disclosure on his Seeking Alpha articles. He says, “The author (Pearson) currently holds a short […]

Introduction Northwest Biotherapeutics held a conference call on May 27th to discuss interim results of its phase 1/2, first in human, trial of DCVax-Direct. This is a new type of dendritic cell vaccine in which the dendritic cells are injected directly into the tumor mass and pick up cancer antigens that are present in that […]

This Has Been a Tough Correction The recent sharp market correction and rotation out of growth stocks like biotechnology and technology has had a major impact on the small biotechnology names that I specialize in. The correction has been stomach churning for me even though I have been through this many times before. I am […]

Purpose of New Financing Northwest Biotherapeutics just announced a financing in which a single institutional investor bought $15 million of stock at a price of $6.60 which is an 8% discount to the closing price on April 9th. The same investor has the right to purchase an additional $17 million of stock at $7.50 over […]