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DewDiligence

07/23/13 6:35 PM

#164376 RE: ghmm #164099

HTBX IPO’s at $10/sh:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heat-biologics-inc-announces-pricing-221948794.html

Heat Biologics (www.heatbio.com) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing its novel off-the-shelf ImPACT therapeutic vaccines to combat a wide range of cancers. Our proprietary ImPACT Therapy is being designed to deliver live, genetically-modified, irradiated human cells which are reprogrammed to "pump out" a broad spectrum of cancer-associated antigens together with a potent immune adjuvant called "gp96" to educate and activate a cancer patient's immune system to recognize and kill cancerous cells.

Heat shock protein gp-96 is a chaperone protein found in all human cells. Heat's lead compound, HS-110, will be entering Phase 2 trials against non-small cell lung cancer and its second product candidate, HS-410 will be entering Phase 1/2 clinical trials against bladder cancer.

In addition to all that, HTBX is the official biotech company of the Miami Heat.
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DewDiligence

07/25/13 4:11 PM

#164480 RE: ghmm #164099

ONTX IPO’s @$15/sh and rises 32% on first day:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/onconova-announces-pricing-initial-public-110000947.html

Onconova Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel products to treat cancer. Onconova's clinical and pre-clinical stage drug development candidates are derived from its extensive chemical library and are designed to work against specific cellular pathways that are important in cancer cells, while causing minimal damage to normal cells. In addition to rigosertib, the Company’s most advanced product candidate, two other candidates are in clinical trials, and several candidates are in pre-clinical stages.

Rigosertib is a PI3K inhibitor in competition with such drug candidates as GILD’s Idelalisib and INFI’s IPI-145.

There will probably be some investors who try to buy ONTX and end up getting ONTY, which could be unfortunate :- )
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DewDiligence

07/28/13 6:24 PM

#164598 RE: ghmm #164099

Five Prime Therapeutics (FPRX) files with SEC for IPO:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1175505/000119312513304936/d536956ds1.htm#rom536956_10

We are a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel protein therapeutics… We have developed a library of more than 5,600 human extracellular proteins, which we believe represent substantially all of the body’s medically important targets for protein therapeutics. We screen this comprehensive library with our proprietary high-throughput protein screening technologies to identify new targets for protein therapeutics. This platform has allowed us to develop a pipeline of novel product candidates for cancer and inflammatory diseases and to generate over $220 million under our collaboration arrangements.

With a few minor changes, this could’ve been the description of MLNM, INCY, or HGSI circa 2000.
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ghmm

08/14/13 8:53 AM

#165311 RE: ghmm #164099

Fate Therapeutics (FATE) files for $69M IPO

ProHema Ph2 on pause until 2014

S-1: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1434316/000119312513333316/d552384ds1.htm

Website: http://fatetherapeutics.com/


Thanks to Biotech investor (@lomu_j) and Andy Biotech (@AndyBiotech)
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DewDiligence

03/30/15 9:12 AM

#189342 RE: ghmm #164099

Fujifilm acquires ICEL for $16.50/sh in cash—a 108% premium to Friday’s closing price:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fujifilm-holdings-acquire-cellular-dynamics-080000031.html

The nominal deal value is $307M.