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AGIO Agios Pharmaceuticals
From FDA approval of AQVESME in alpha/beta-thalassemia to the next catalysts in sickle cell and MDS: a filings-based look at where Agios really stands now.
RVPH Reviva Pharmaceuticals Update dec 23
On 23 December 2025, reviva confirmed in an 8-K and a press release that the FDA, after the pre-NDA meeting, is strongly encouraging a second Phase 3 trial (RECOVER-2) before any NDA submission for brilaroxazine in schizophrenia.
SAVA Cassava Sciences Inc
As of late 2025, Cassava is a small-cap CNS company trading in the low-single-digit USD range after its lead Alzheimer’s drug, simufilam, failed in Phase 3 and the program was discontinued.
TBPH Theravance Biopharma Inc
Over the last weeks of 2025, several themes have dominated coverage on TBPH: a clearly positive Q3 2025 earnings print (revenue up high-teens percent year-on-year, earnings swinging to a small profit), a sizeable analyst re-rating with average price targets in the mid-to-high twenties per share, and a steady drumbeat of commentary framing Theravance as a “growth” or “momentum” stock again rather than a restructuring situation.
VRDN Viridian Therapeutics Inc
Viridian Therapeutics is trying to become the second major commercial player in thyroid eye disease after Amgen’s Tepezza, with a TED franchise built around veligrotug (IV) and VRDN-003 (subcutaneous), plus an FcRn platform (VRDN-006/008) that targets broader autoimmune indications.
PROK ProKidney Corp
ProKidney is a late clinical-stage cellular therapeutics company focused on a single lead product: rilparencel, also known as REACT (Renal Autologous Cell Therapy).
MBRX Moleculin Biotech
Deep dive on Moleculin Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBRX), a Phase 3 oncology company built around Annamycin (AnnAraC) in relapsed/refractory AML, with additional programs in STS lung metastases, brain tumors and viral indications. We walk through MIRACLE’s design and timelines, Phase 1b/2 AML data, the latest December 2025 updates, the balance sheet and why the stock still trades like a distressed nano-cap.
ADGM Adagio Medical Holdings
Adagio Medical is not a biotech but a medical device company developing catheter-based ultra-low temperature cryoablation (ULTC) systems for cardiac arrhythmias: atrial fibrillation (AF), atrial flutter and ventricular tachycardia (VT). Its technology uses near-critical nitrogen to reach temperatures as low as −196°C in a linear catheter system, aiming to create rapid, continuous, transmural lesions.
PCSA Processa Pharmaceuticals Inc

Processa Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage company built around a simple idea: instead of discovering entirely new oncology molecules, it re-engineers existing, FDA-approved chemotherapies to improve their therapeutic index. The Next Generation Cancer (NGC) platform aims to keep the same cancer-killing mechanism, while changing metabolism and distribution to reduce toxicity and potentially increase efficacy.
MBIO Mustang Bio Inc
Mustang Bio is a clinical-stage biotech focused on CAR-T and oncolytic virus approaches for hard-to-treat cancers and rare diseases. The science is interesting (especially around MB-106 and MB-101), but cash is tight, dilution is heavy and the going-concern risk is real. Here we lay out numbers, pipeline, sentiment and risk without any promotional angle.
SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group Inc
SELLAS Life Sciences is a late-stage oncology biotech whose near-term equity story is dominated by a single survival-driven Phase 3 trial (REGAL with GPS in AML maintenance) and a rapidly de-risking CDK9 program (SLS009 in AML-MR).
BEAM Beam Therapeutics
Beam Therapeutics is one of the purest listed plays on base editing. Its pipeline spans ex vivo and in vivo programs: risto-cel (BEAM-101) for sickle cell disease, BEAM-201 for aggressive T-cell malignancies, BEAM-301 for glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSD1a) and BEAM-302 for severe alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, plus an engineered stem-cell antibody-paired evasion (ESCAPE) platform aimed at non-genotoxic conditioning.
MREO Mereo BioPharma
Mereo BioPharma is now a concentrated bet on setrusumab (UX143), an anti-sclerostin monoclonal antibody partnered with Ultragenyx for osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), plus a back-up program in respiratory alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (alvelestat) and an earlier-stage bone asset (vantictumab) licensed to āshibio for autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type 2, where Mereo retains European commercial rights.
ABVX Abivax
Abivax SA is a French biotech now focused almost entirely on chronic inflammatory diseases, with obefazimod as its lead – and effectively only late-stage – asset. Originally developed for HIV, obefazimod was repositioned in ulcerative colitis after mid-stage virology data underwhelmed but immune-modulation readouts looked promising. Over time, the company abandoned its older infectious disease and oncology projects and concentrated resources on inflammatory bowel disease.
CYTK Cytokinetics
Cytokinetics enters 2026 in a very different position from just a year ago. After years as a development-stage muscle biology company – including the high-profile failure of omecamtiv mecarbil in chronic heart failure – the company now has its first approved product: MYQORZO (aficamten) for symptomatic obstructive HCM.
CRSP Crispr Therapeutics

CRISPR Therapeutics enters 2026 as a hybrid story: part royalty-like partner on a first-in-class commercial gene therapy (Casgevy for SCD/TDT), part high-risk platform company pushing CRISPR into autoimmune disease, oncology, cardiovascular disease and regenerative medicine.
ALT Altimmune Inc 22 Dec Update

On December 18, 2025, Altimmune announced 48-week data from the IMPACT Phase 2b trial of pemvidutide for MASH (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis). While the company highlighted “key measures of success” including improvements in non-invasive fibrosis markers (ELF, LSM, cT1), sustained weight loss, and favorable safety, the stock fell by more than 20% in the following sessions.
CGTX Cognition Therapeutics
Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company (no products on the market yet) headquartered in Purchase, New York (USA). The company develops orally available therapies for age-related neurodegenerative disorders, primarily Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).
RVPH Reviva Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc Dec 22

Reviva Pharmaceuticals is a small late-stage clinical company built almost entirely around one asset: brilaroxazine (RP5063), a serotonin-dopamine modulator for schizophrenia and other CNS / inflammatory indications. The company has successfully completed one large global Phase 3 trial (RECOVER-1) and a 1-year open-label extension and is now preparing for a pre-NDA meeting with the FDA in Q4 2025, targeting a full NDA submission in Q2 2026 for schizophrenia.
Premarket Update dec 22 – Tech Strength, Positive Futures and a Focus on Biotech Catalysts
Christmas week: lower liquidity, but often faster and more technical moves. Below you’ll find market movers, Europe/commodities, and a “Biotech Special” built on calendar catalysts (RVPH, ARGX, AARD, plus technical notes on ZLAB and HALO).