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ghmm

12/19/12 6:48 PM

#154417 RE: jq1234 #154416

Sorry to slight you :-). Just remember a lot of the back and forth with Genisi and your right she did moderate (maybe she saw a trend coming in the data).

I got lucky (well I still did take a hit when I sold out a couple years ago). I thought the drug would work in Fabry just didn't see them getting enough near term financial benefit and I'm not a catalyst trader so stayed away.

I think we agree they had a tough task going up against ERT's. I guess the hope for them was finding a lot of adults who didn't want (or need to) go on ERT. I vaguely recall reading that the number of people with Fabry may be greatly underestimated. I don't know how well GSK could have done finding these people though.

I always thought Pompe was the key. I was (and perhaps even more so now) in the skeptical camp for their Pompe program after the tox in their monotherapy. I think they'll hit tox issue before they get the dose high enough to compete with newer Pompe programs in development.
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genisi

12/27/12 3:56 AM

#154606 RE: jq1234 #154416

Genisi actually became less pessimistic (or more optimistic) later on

Yes, less pessimistic. My words were "If so, I am less bearish on the monotherapy treatment than before*" (#msg-70875050), thinking FOLD might have found potential responders bearing certain 'amenable' mutations. But even so, and if the trend seen now (after 6 months) strengthen after 6 more months, I still don't see migalastat beats ERTs.
I recall you were bearish on the combination with ERT (price, hard to show clinical benefit) while I thought they have a better shot to show clinical benefit with less frequent dosing. Still, I think we both are bearish on the commercial potential.
Good for PLX's Fabry program that one player is out.

*From 3 years ago: "My thoughts were and still are, that chaperones will not deliver" (#msg-42150893)