Tag archive for ‘IMUC’
Northwest Biotherapeutics: FDA Panel Recommendation to Approve Amgen’s Cancer Vaccine is Hugely Significant In Regard to Possible Approval of DCVax-L and DCVax Direct. (NWBO, $7.86, Buy)
Overview An FDA advisory panel on April 30 recommended by a vote of 22 to 1 that Amgen’s cancer vaccine talimogene laherparepvec be approved for the treatment of later stages of inoperable metastatic melanoma. The final decision will be made by the FDA, but it would be very surprising for the FDA to go against […]
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics: Is There an Investment Case to be Made? (IMUC, $0.57)
Investment Background The purpose of this report is to get investors re-engaged with ImmunoCellular Therapeutics (IMUC). On December 11, 2013 the Company announced that ICT-107 did not reach the primary endpoint of median overall survival in a randomized phase 2 trial of 124 patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (ndGBM). The stock plummeted from $2.72 on […]
Some Observations on Northwest Biotherapeutics (NWBO), Neuralstem (CUR), Cytokinetics (CYTK) and Immuno-Cellular (IMUC) from Their Presentations at BIO CEO.
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 […]
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics LTD: Thoughts on Management’s Plan to Move ICT-107 into Phase 3 (IMUC, Neutral, $1.02)
Investment Overview ImmunoCellular and its dendritic cell cancer vaccine ICT-107 were written off as failures in December of 2013 after it was announced that the phase 2 trial in newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) failed to reach statistical significance on the primary endpoint of median overall survival. However, I believe IMUC is putting forward a […]
ImmunoCellular; Thoughts on Its Plan to Move ICT-107 Forward into Phase 3 Trials Based on Data Presented at ASCO (IMUC, $1.34, Neutral, Free Content)
Investment Overview ImmunoCellular (IMUC) presented an update on the phase 2 results of ICT-107in glioblastoma multiforme or GBM at ASCO in which the authors concluded that prespecified analyses of MGMT and HLA subgroups (I’ll try to explain this later) demonstrated meaningful clinical improvements for ICT-107 patients. The Company went on to say that it believes […]
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics: Comments on ASCO Abstract on ICT-107 (IMUC, Trading Buy, $1.20)
Investment Overview The abstract on ICT-107 was released last night and is just a brief summary of the trial results as they were reported in December, 2014; there is no information in the abstract that was not previously known. However, there will be an oral presentation at the Central Nervous System Tumors session on Sunday, […]
ImmunoCellular Has Plans to Move ICT-107 Forward into Phase 3 Trials; Should It? (IMUC, $1.19 Trading Buy, For Paid Subscribers)
Investment Overview ImmunoCellular (IMUC) and its dendritic cell cancer vaccine ICT-107 were written off as failures late last year after the phase 2 trial in newly diagnosed glioblastoma failed to reach statistical significance on the endpoint of overall survival. However, failure in a clinical trial does not always mean that the drug is ineffective. Trial […]
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Trading Opportunity (IMUC, Not rated, $1.19, Paid Subscribers)
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics just announced that an abstract describing the phase II trial of its dendritic cell-based cancer vaccine ICT-107 in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) has been accepted for an oral presentation at the 2014 American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, to be held in Chicago May 30-June 3, 2014. I believe that this […]
Refuting Feuerstein’s Latest Negative Blog on Northwest Biotherapeutics (NWBO, Buy, $7.56)
Before I Get Into This Article, a Word to My Subscribers I want to apologize to my subscribers for a software error that resulted in seven e-mails being sent out to alert subscribers that I had published a new company report today. There should have been just one. We have just implemented this e-mail alert […]
Linda Powers, CEO of Northwest Biotherapeutics, Attacks and Debunks the Weak Bear Case in a Presentation on March 27
Overview Northwest Biotherapeutics CEO Linda Powers made a presentation yesterday in which she addressed the bear case that has resulted in significant pressure on the stock in the last two weeks in particular and for the last two years in general. In my opinion, she effectively debunked a weak bear argument, but you be the […]