Commissioned research: Ascelia Pharma AB
Ascelia Pharma has included the first patient in its pivotal, fully financed and an exceptionally straightforward phase III SPARKLE study with the lead asset Mangoral, targeting global launch in 2022.
We estimate a relatively high 75% likelihood that the imaging drug Mangoral will reach the market on the back of strong cumulative clinical data and a solid, straightforward Phase III design.
Commissioned research: Bio-Works Technologies AB
Bio-Works’s net sales for full year 2019 were SEK 5.6 million, down SEK 1 million from 2018. The decrease is due to the fact that the company’s largest customer in 2018 did not place an order in 2019.
In this update, we have looked beyond Bio-Works’s obvious stochastic character of the order inflow as we believe this is symptomatic for all early commercialization stage companies and not a structural problem for Bio-Works as such.
Commissioned research: AlzeCure Pharma
Biogen’s progress with its Alzheimer’s disease drug (aducanumab) gives support for the amyloid hypothesis and significantly strengthens AlzeCure’s case.
The company’s Alzstatin-program focuses on disease-modifying therapies for early Alzheimer’s disease by reducing the production of amyloid beta.
Commissioned research: Bio-Works Technologies AB
We believe that Bio-Works is now entering a new era as a professionally structured commercial player due to the following recent advancements;
i) consecutive quarterly customer growth; ii) fast traction in the important Protein A segment shortly post launch of the product WorkBeads affimAb; and iii) activist-like investments by the new owners and board members Peter Ehrenheim (Chairman) and Thomas Eklund (Director), holding a total of 17% together with a group of similar investors.
Commissioned research: Immunovia AB
For the first time, test results with new blood, and across all risk groups Recent news flow from Immunovia has been intense and will continue to be intense in the coming quarters.
The news about the last phase of the IMMray PanCan-d optimisation was important for particularly two reasons, we believe.
Commissioned research: Ascelia Pharma AB
Ascelia Pharma’s application to achieve patent coverage for a new Mangoral product has potentially several important implications, both in the medium and long term.
Following the planned 2022 launch of Mangoral in the US and Europe, the product’s orphan drug status and data exclusivity will protect sales for a period of between 7-10 years.
Commissioned research: Xbrane Biopharma AB
Xbrane Biopharma was founded in 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a late-stage drug development company focusing on biosimilars.
It became a publicly listed company in 2016 and in Q2 2018, the company entered into a strategic collaboration with Stada, Germany, covering the development and commersialisation of Xlucane, Xbrane’s biosimilar to the reference medicine Lucentis (ranibizumab).
Commissioned research: Immunovia AB
The news flow from Immunovia will be very intense and important in the coming months and quarters.
Regarding the company’s lead asset, IMMray PanCan-d, the last phase of the optimisation of the commercial signature and algorithm is ongoing, and results from the 1,600-sample test is planned to be reported by early June.