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The BIO CEO Conference is being held in New York at the Waldorf Astoria on February 9 and 10 with a broad agenda of companies. You can go the websites of each company to hear their presentations. This note gives some highlights from the first day. Northwest Biotherapeutics; A paper discussing results from the phase […]

Investment Overview Linda Powers was invited to the 7th Annual Phacilitate Immunotherapy Forum in Washington D.C. to speak on the potential role of personalized immunotherapy drugs in the treatment of cancer. She was prominently featured in the agenda as a speaker in which she explained Northwest’s business strategy and as a participant on a panel […]

Ms. Powers will present at 10:30 AM. She will then participate in a discussion panel with representatives from Amgen, Roche Diagnostics, Adaptimmune and Biovest International. Prior to her presentation representatives from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck and M.D. Anderson will speak. I don’t know if there will be anything new that will be presented but inclusion of […]

Overview Linda Powers spoke at the Biotech Showcase Conference in San Francisco on January 12, 2015. My Buy recommendation on Northwest Biotherapeutics is well documented and well known. The purpose of this note is not to document the reasons for my positive recommendation. It is intended as a brief summary of the notes that I took. […]

Immuno-oncology is one of the most exciting areas for cancer research and cancer vaccines should be considered as a promising research area within immuno-oncology. Cancer vaccines might have been expected to produce great investor interest, but a long string of clinical trial failures over the last decade has made investors cautious or skeptical. However, evidence […]

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 […]

  The Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) is charged with monitoring the safety and efficacy results of clinical trial. The committee and its chairman are totally independent of NWBO. The Chairman of the DMC says there has been no interim analysis for efficacy of the phase 3 trial. Feuerstein alleged that efficacy results were negative and […]

One of the basic charges made against me by Richard Pearson and other short sellers is that they maintain that DCVax-L is a hoax and no credible analyst thinks that the product has any possibility for success. Pearson maintains that there is only a small group of paid promoters who have anything positive to say […]

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 […]

Adam Feuerstein has just  launched its 16th negative blog on Northwest Biotherapeutics since the beginning of March and this has caused the stock to decline about $0.88 in early trading. The link to his blog is http://www.thestreet.com/story/12749366/1/prestigious-cancer-hospital-rebukes-northwest-bio-for-inappropriate-data-disclosures.html  and the title of the blog is “Prestigious Cancer Hospital Rebukes Northwest Bio for ‘Inappropriate’ Data Disclosures” Here […]