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A Diamond in the Rough
By GS Early
We've all been watching the dramatic gyrations of the stock markets around the world as the US financial and mortgage sectors try to sort out how hard to land in the official end to the US housing bubble.
The market has been on a manic upswing Friday, and both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite are making it a much better weekend than if you headed out of town yesterday. And it wasn't until late in this depressive trend that many of my nano stocks started to get hit. But some stocks in my Pioneers Portfolio have now become short targets and are paying a price for no particular reason.
For example, one well-run exciting company I follow is trading at new 52-week lows and, even in today's uptrended market, is down two cents. This is a company with ZERO debt on its books and enough operating capital to get through the next 18 months without another deal coming through the door. It's also a company whose largest shareholder is pharma giant Pfizer, which is committed to pouring tens of millions of dollars into the company in coming months and years.
And just this week, as its stock continued to plummet, it released news that it completed recruitment for its pancreatic cancer study in Europe in Phase IIa trials. That's some encouraging news in and of itself.
But here's what the preliminary studies have shown:
Eight weeks follow-up data available on the first 10 patients treated shows 90% of these patients have had either stabilization or reduction in size of their primary tumor and none of these patients experienced product related significant adverse events.
This is some seriously good news. Most drug trials wash out in Phase II when efficacy is put through its paces on humans.
These trials will be on a smaller group than the Phase III trials, but for a virtually untreatable cancer, any improvement from waiting for the inevitable is headway. It's presenting significant safety and efficacy results in this small sample, which portends a similar trend in a larger sample.
Even if half the patients demonstrated stasis or improvement, it would be a compelling story. Final results will be announced in December or January.
The market isn't smarter than you are; there are just some people having fun out there right now. This company has a lot more liquidity in the US market now with its recent secondary institutional offerings, and there's a lot of momentum players jumping in just to make some quick money.
But when this thing turns, it's going to be pretty exciting.So I've created a report for Nanotech Investor News subscribers covering this exciting little company and it's state of the art drug delivery system… plus four other pioneering companies in my latest report Nanotech Pioneers: Small Stocks With Huge Profit-Potential." AFTER 2 hours of dd I found out it...it's PSDV http://tinyurl.com/33657u IT'S TRUE, PFE IS IN [In July 2007, the Company raised approximately US$18.4m (A$21.4m) of net proceeds from share placements including a US$6.5m (A$7.5m) investment by Pfizer raising their total investment in the Company to US$11.5m (A$13.7m). The Company currently expects that it has sufficient cash to fund operations for more than 12 months.
Worldwide Collaborative Research and License Agreement with Pfizer pSivida signed an exclusive worldwide Collaborative Research and License Agreement with Pfizer Inc. for pSivida's controlled drug delivery technologies in ophthalmic applications in April 2007. Under the terms of the agreement, pSivida will receive up to approximately US$155m (A$182m) in development and sales related milestones. Pfizer made an initial investment of US$5.0m (A$6.1m) in ordinary shares of pSivida and subsequently made an additional US$6.5m (A$7.5M) investment in American Depository Shares (ADSs) in July 2007. The two companies will work together on a joint research program aimed at developing ophthalmic products using pSivida's sustained drug delivery technology. In addition to the milestone payments described above, Pfizer will fund the cost of the joint research program. This license agreement followed the completion of 12 months of evaluation of pSivida's drug delivery technologies by Pfizer. pSivida is free to license its Medidur(TM) drug delivery technology for non-ophthalmic applications. pSivida Redeems all Convertible Notes All convertible notes have been redeemed enabling the Company to move forward with a simpler capital structure. ] that's all folks!
PSD Price at posting:
0.0¢ Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Not Held
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