ImmunoCellular Therapeutics
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a development stage company based in Woodland Hills, California. ImmunoCellular Therapeutics focuses on developing and commercializing therapeutics to treat cancer using the immune system. Its product candidate portfolio includes cellular immunotherapies targeting cancer and cancer stem cell antigens; peptide based immunotherapies targeting cancer stem cells; and monoclonal antibodies to diagnose and treat various cancers. The company is developing dendritic cell based vaccine product candidate (ICT-107) that is in Phase II clinical trial to treat glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumor. It is also developing peptide based off-the-shelf vaccine, a preclinical development stage product to target multiple ...
Engineers to Harvest Organs
Delhi, India: For patients with severely dysfunctional organs, transplant becomes the last option but finding a compatible donor to replace the organ is an uphill task. However, such patients won't have to lose sleep looking for donors and compatibility, if biodegradable scaffolds, developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), turn into a reality. In collaboration with AIIMS and PGI Chandigarh, the institute has created scaffolds on which stem cells can be grown into tissues, which then develop into a full organ. The organ thus developed can be used for transplantation. At present, these scaffolds — made of biodegradable polymers — ...
FDA drug approvals in 2009
[caption id="attachment_24" align="alignright" width="300" caption="FDA Drug Approval"][/caption] The FDA hasn't yet tallied its year-end drug approvals but will have the number by Friday. As of Dec. 1 the agency reported 25 new drugs approved. In 2008 it approved 25 new drugs, that number is likely to go up by one when the final tally is taken. During 2009, the agency added 31 new or updated "black box" warning labels to drugs already on the market. That was down from 56 boxed warnings in the previous year, when the agency issued several broad warnings that resulted in boxed labels for entire groups of ...
Investing in Small Biotech Companies
How to evaluate a Biotech Stock, especially small/startup Biotech stocks. A fair evaluation is to be made before investing in any biotech stocks. If the drug gets FDA approval, chances are really good that the stock is going to go up. So, we’re looking for drugs that will likely get approval, but we’ll still have to confirm that the drug has the chance to make money. If it’s got no competitor, great, but more likely we’ll have to figure out how much market share the drug can take if it’s only slightly better than its competitor; anything else is gravy. We’ll take ...
New York Stock Exchange Versus NASDAQ
What is the difference between New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ? Do the stocks trade in the same way in both the exchanges? For an investing public, it is much easier to trade NYSE stocks profitably than NASDAQ stocks, if you are trading from home over internet. This is because the rules in place on the New York stock exchange are much friendlier to the online trader than those on the NASDAQ exchange. How to identify the stocks, weather it is traded in NASDAQ or NYSE? If the stock has a one, two, or three letter symbol, it trades either on the ...
Penny Stock Trading
Many penny stocks have the potential to double in price per share within days or weeks generating grand slam profits for traders. And when the price reaches the peack9usually coinciding the release of a major PR, or achieving a milestone), most of the penny stock will explode in one day trading. This MASSIVE BUYING FRENZY puts the early investors into a profit making position to potentially triple their money. Only penny stocks have this type of tremendous money-making profit potential. The trick is to get in early on the stock picks that have the potential to EXPLODE. Some hot penny stocks pop like a champagne cork ...
Day Trading Online
The explosive growth of low cost of online trading has created a new class of investor who can now make a decent living by trading stocks online (over the internet). This is a field which was only reserved for Wall Street's most powerfull brokerage firms and investment banks. The advance in technology has made it possible for any body with a broadband connection to trade stock online easily. Day trading can be quite lucrative, but only if you know what you are doing. The key to day trading is to trade only when the odds are in your favour. Profits are ...
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics
// Sep 4th, 2011
Engineers to Harvest Organs
// Jan 5th, 2010 FDA drug approvals in 2009
// Jan 5th, 2010
Investing in Small Biotech Companies
// Dec 20th, 2009 New York Stock Exchange Versus NASDAQ
// Nov 27th, 2009 Penny Stock Trading
// Nov 27th, 2009 Day Trading Online
// Nov 15th, 2009