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Markets

Cantor starts Cognition at OW; PT $12

Cantor Fitzgerald launched coverage of Cognition Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CGTX) with an “overweight” rating and 12-month price target of $12. The stock closed at $1.74 on Sept. 28. Cognition is a neuro-innovator leveraging...

September 29, 2022

Markets

WB starts Akouos at OP; fair value estimate $12

William Blair launched coverage of Akouos (NASDAQ:AKUS) with an “outperform” rating and fair value estimate of $12. The stock closed at $5.10 on Sept. 28. Akouos is developing a pipeline of gene therapies delivered...

September 29, 2022

Developments

VoxNeuro, CAF in study to measure training-related sub-concussive exposure

VoxNeuro, a closely-held software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) brain health company, has partnered with the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to study the cognitive effects following intense military training regimens designed...

September 28, 2022

Markets

Stifel cuts PhaseBio to hold on bentracimab ownership dispute

Stifel downgraded PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:PHAS) to “hold” from “buy” and slashed its price target to $1 from $15, citing an ownership dispute over PhaseBio’s bentracimab, a potential ticagrelor reversal agent...

September 28, 2022

Developments

atai unit initiates Phase 1 trial for MDMA derivative EMP-01

EmpathBio, a unit of atai Life Sciences (NASDAQ:ATAI), received regulatory and ethics approval to begin enrollment of its Phase 1 study of EMP-01, a 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) derivative for the treatment...

September 28, 2022

Developments

SAB Biotherapeutics presents new influenza and COVID-19 data

SAB Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:SABS) presented new data at the Options for Control of Influenza conference in Belfast, showing its fully-human polyclonal antibody platform maintains its efficacy against multiple variants...

September 28, 2022

Developments

Maxim survey finds two-thirds of respondents planning to attend JMP

A survey of 150 people to a recent Maxim Group survey about the upcoming J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference found that 69% of respondents are planning to attend the conference in person, while 52% would choose in person...

September 26, 2022

Developments

Profound Medical presents durable and stable positive 4-year trends from TACT pivotal trial

An investigator for Profound Medical (NASDAQ:PROF; TSX:PRN) presented four-year follow-up data from the TACT clinical study with Profound’s TULSA-PRO device that continue to demonstrate durable and stable safety and...

September 26, 2022

Executive Moves

Paul Brennan steps down as CEO of NervGen

Paul Brennan Paul Brennan is stepping down as president, CEO and a director of NervGen Pharma (OTCQX:NGENF; TSXV:NGEN), effective immediately. The board appointed current executive chairman, Bill Radvak, as interim CEO...

September 23, 2022

Developments

OpSens SavvyWire in first U.S. procedure

Dr. Philippe Genereux, director of the Structural Heart Program at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey, and his team, performed the first use of OpSens’ (TSX:OPS; OTCQX:OPSSF) SavvyWire in a transcatheter aortic...

September 23, 2022

Markets

Cantor sees Hepion Pharma potentially emerging from under the radar

In a new research report, Cantor Fitzgerald writes that Hepion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:HEPA) is a company that has largely flown under the radar despite already achieving some early proof-of-concept evidence and having...

September 21, 2022

Developments

Novo Nordisk Foundation investing $200-million for first quantum computer for life sciences research

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of $200-million to establish the first full-scale quantum computer for the development of new medicines as well as providing new insights into climate change and the green...

September 21, 2022

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