Biotech Frontiers

Life-science and biotech investing is our focus in Biotech Frontiers… Some startups follow a clear, smooth path to success. Others skyrocket, then quickly fall back to Earth. But, generally speaking, as a sector, biotech stocks perform differently than tech stocks, “forever stocks,” and certainly the blue chips… Biotech veteran Erez Kalir heads up this advisory that publishes on the first Thursday of each month, with regular unscheduled updates as they are needed.

  • Sell Alert: Iovance Biotherapeutics (Nasdaq: IOVA)
    Dear Biotech Frontiers subscribers, One of the most important qualities that separates professional investors from amateurs is the capacity to face reality when it becomes clear an investment thesis has broken down. As I’ve said before, hope is not a strategy. Unfortunately, that moment has come regarding our Biotech Frontiers investment in Iovance Biotherapeutics (Nasdaq:
  • Our Negative-EV Basket, Part II
    Unlike in the first negative-EV biotech basket, editor Erez Kalir doesn’t anticipate having a Big Picture catalyst that causes our recommendations to rise in price. This time, the catalyst will come from the biotech sector itself: The advances emerging are as transformative as any in the history of biotech
  • A Biotech Tipping Point
    No discovery in the history of science has had a larger impact than that of monoclonal antibodies (“mAbs”) – the laboratory-made proteins that act like precision-guided cruise missiles, targeting a specific molecule in the body. Last year, five of the top 10 best-selling drugs in the world were mAbs, including the number-one best-seller Keytruda, Merck’s cancer therapy that did $29.5 billion in revenue.
  • Sell Alerts: TG Therapeutics (TGTX) and Humacyte (HUMA)
    Dear Biotech Frontiers subscribers, I’m writing to you with two sell recommendations from the Biotech Frontiers portfolio this morning – one driven by good news, the other by bad. Let’s start with the good news. Last July, we recommended TG Therapeutics (Nasdaq: TGTX) with an entry price of $18.79 per share. We suggested that TG
  • A Miracle Drug For A Dreadful Disease
    This month, Erez Kalir focuses on a company that has developed a drug that promises to be a game-changing therapy for severe pulmonary conditions for which there is currently no treatment.