AF opined on the possibility of an adcom. No surprise, he kept with his pattern of almost exclusively limiting his comment to those which are unfavorable to Amarin. (He suggests an adcom is still very much a possibility, which many people would consider an unresolved risk.)
AF's tweet yesterday:
Adam Feuerstein
@adamfeuerstein
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@sentivcapital
@zbiotech
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@Sports_bios
From my reading of rules, FDA must give $AMRN 60 calendar days notice for an advisory panel. The Vascepa PDUFA is Sept. 27, so that implies July 29 as the last possible notification date for a panel? Practically speaking, it would have to be well before that.
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He was a day off on the PDUFA date. Is his remark about 60 days correct?His tweet was a reply to another tweet that included a statement of FDA policy that the FDA "intends" to convene adcoms at least 6 weeks before the PDUFA date, which would make the cutoff for informing Amarin a week or two ago. Of course, we know the FDA is not rigidly constrained by their intentions, goals, policies, or the law, but it seems very likely no adcom and it seems odd AF almost only comments about Amarin when there's something negative to say. Bizarre, since Vascepa is clearly the biggest advance in decades for the primary killer of humanity, and it's still an investment opportunity of historic proportions IMO as well.
Sincere question: does Stat have a reputation for intentionally fake news? Do we know if they can be paid to slant a story one way or the other? Their coverage of Amarin has been terrible and indefensible. AF and MH have both been given the facts about Vascepa and Amarin and they really don't seem to care about their false reporting.
I don't think there's anything to fear if there were an adcom, but not everyone sees it that way.