Leerink reiterated its “outperform” rating on Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AUPH; TSX:AUP) after the reported top-line results with voclosporin in a Phase 2b clinical study in patients with active lupus nephritis...
Vital Therapies (NASDAQ:VTL) appointed Faheem Hasnain to the board, effective immediately.Mr. Hasnain served as president, CEO and as a director of Receptos from November 2010 to August 2015, when it was purchased by...
Roth Capital Partners raised its price target for CymaBay Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CBAY) to $6 from $4, citing a potential partnership for the company’s gout product. The stock closed at $1.79 on Thursday. “Following...
Maxim Group lowered its price target for Bio-Path Holdings (NASDAQ:BPTH) to $2 from $5, citing the company’s data trough ahead. The stock was changing hands at $1.72 on Wednesday afternoon. Analyst Jason McCarthy writes...
Mackie Research Capital initiated coverage of Profound Medical (TSX-V:PRN) with a “speculative buy” rating and 12-month target price of $3.30. The stock was quoted at $1.45 at mid-day on Wednesday. “Relative to all...
Maxim Group lowered its price target for Galena Biopharma (NASDAQ:GALE) to $1 from $2, citing a shift in the company’s pipeline focus. The stock closed at 46 cents on Tuesday. At the end of June, an Independent Data...
Maxim Group lowered its price target for Omeros (NASDAQ:OMER) to $19 from $30, citing a higher risk value from its three valuation models. The stock closed at $13.38 on Tuesday. Analyst Jason Kolbert writes that sales...
Maxim Group raised it price target for Sophiris Bio (NASDAQ:SPHS) to $6 from $4, citing better data of the company’s topsalysin drug candidate. The stock closed at $5.04 on Tuesday. As the datasets for topsalysin...
By Len Zehr Closely-held Parvus Therapeutics is developing a broad therapeutic platform, called Navacims, to treat autoimmune diseases through in vivo expansion and activation of disease-specific regulatory T-cells (T...
IntelGenx (OTCQX:IGXT; TSX-V:IGX) has sold its royalty on future sales of Forfivo XL to SWK Holdings for $6-million. Forfivo XL (bupropion extended release) is the first 450-milligram bupropion hydrogen chloride tablet...