$SAVA - A second opinion
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If you have been following Cassava and their Alzheimers drug PTI-125, you will know that 1 of 2 trial endpoints was not recently met, sending the stock down almost 80%. But, I think the exodus was premature. Here is why:
Per the companys press release, one endpoint WAS MET:
A secondary endpoint of CSF levels of IL1-beta, a core biomarker of neuroinflammation from baseline to day 28, was met, Cassava said. The drug was also found to be safe and well-tolerated.
Per NIH, neuro inflammation is the CORE issue with Alzheimers:
Inflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has emerged as a central pathology that likely plays a role in onset and progression of the disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6214864/
Cycling back to Cassavas press release, they state:
CSF levels of IL1-beta, a core biomarker of neuroinflammation ... was met
To reiterate the NIH definition, Neuro Inflammation is core to the onset and progression of Alzheimers. At some point, Cassava IS going to cycle back around to the secondary endpoint (neuro inflammation), and realize that ALONE constitutes an ALZHEIMER DRUG THAT WORKS.
In this case, traders were SO tuned into the word miss that they MISSED something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT -> The efficacy of PTI-125 towards Neuro Inflammation, in Alzheimers (ALONE), makes it A BLOCKBUSTER DRUG!