NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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DD - Re: publication timeline, if you get your foot in the door with a request for a revision, you are almost guaranteed to get a publication accepted. A "bad" journal will take 3 months to get you a response to your initial submission. If negative, you submit somewhere else and again at worst wait 3 months for a negative response. Repeat if necessary. If they submitted to a journal like JTM (where blinded data were published), it would have been quickly accepted. So, we should have had a publication by now if they had written it in the 3 months following unblinding.

My guess regarding the delay in publication is they submitted a lot later than we thought and they are aiming high by sending initially to a good journal. The recent info about the Advisory Panel may help explain the delay (I've served on these before). These are usually one or two day events, invitation only ("key opinion leaders"), everyone signs an NDA, and they show the actual data and discuss it and how best to proceed. The consensus must have been that the company needs to do X, Y, and Z before announcing TLD and publishing. The fact that the company took this advice from the experts is not a bad thing. Even though the timing of TLD release by NWBO has been WAY outside the norm, I think it is being driven by the best information they have.