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Biotech catalyst news and analysis. FDA PDUFA tracker

Merlintrader Trading Pub
Biotech catalyst news and analysis. FDA PDUFA tracker
Category Reports Biotech
Tickers reports and analysis
OCGN Ocugen Inc
Ocugen has been rallying on rising price and volume, trading close to its 52-week high. The key trigger is the official announcement of a January 15, 2026 webcast to discuss 12-month data from the Phase 2 ArMaDa trial of OCU410 in GA, as outlined in the company’s press release
BCTX BriaCell Therapeutics Corp
In its January 13, 2026 press release, BriaCell announced the durable and sustained complete resolution of a lung metastasis in a patient treated with Bria-OTS™ (off-the-shelf personalized immunotherapy). The release describes a 78-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer who achieved complete resolution after four doses of Bria-OTS monotherapy, with confirmation out to 11 months.
QNCX Quince Therapeutics Inc
NEAT is clearly positive, Quince can be re-rated as a near-launch rare-disease company with credible billion-dollar potential and strategic appeal. If NEAT fails or is weak, equity value could be severely impaired given the single-asset focus, limited cash and EIB debt.
FBIO Fortress Biotech Inc
Focus: FDA approval of Zycubo (copper histidinate, ex CUTX-101) as first treatment for Menkes disease in children – monetisation of milestones, royalties and potential PRV for Fortress/Cyprium.
TVTX Travere Therapeutics Inc
Today is about one thing: uncertainty around the FDA decision timing/outcome for the FILSPARI FSGS sNDA. The company explicitly highlighted FDA information requests right before the target date.
PL Planet Labs PBC
Focus: multi-year low 9-figure Satellite Services contract with the Swedish Armed Forces – third sovereign-space deal in 12 months, >$500M combined.
TENX Tenax Therapeutics Inc
Tenax Therapeutics (TENX) – Deep Dive / Analisi Approfondita (Jan 2023 – Oggi) Tenax Therapeutics (TENX) – Deep Dive / Analisi Approfondita (Jan 2023 – Oggi) Full deep dive on TENX: financials, pipeline, catalysts, shareholder structure, insider activity, dilution, analyst…
IDYA Ideaya Biosciences Inc
Precision oncology company built around synthetic lethality, with darovasertib in uveal melanoma and a broad pipeline (MAT2A, PRMT5, PARG, ADCs) backed by more than 1.1 billion dollars in cash and a guided runway into 2030.
RCKT Rocket Pharmaceuticals
Focus: FDA PDUFA for KRESLADI™ (LAD-I) on March 28, 2026 – gene therapy, rare pediatric disease.
ATRA Atara Biotherapeutics Inc Jan 12 Update
Yesterday’s report framed ATRA around a PDUFA-window setup, with the assumption that the 2025 CRL was primarily a CMC/GMP story and that the ALLELE trial remained acceptable as the pivotal efficacy dataset. Today that premise is broken: the FDA has issued a second Complete Response Letter (CRL) for tabelecleucel/tab-cel in EBV+ PTLD.
Market Review | Preview for the Week of Jan 12
Biotech catalysts, small-cap rotation, space & defence names already on the Merlintrader radar, Trump factor, geopolitics (Ukraine, Red Sea, Venezuela, Greenland) and J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2026.
SANA Biotechnology
As of January 10, 2026, Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: SANA) stands as a clinical-stage pioneer focused on the development of engineered cells as a new modality of medicine. Founded on the belief that cell therapy will follow small molecules and biologics as the "third pillar" of therapeutics, Sana has built a platform to address the two primary bottlenecks of the industry: Immune Evasion and Scalable Manufacturing.
MDGL Madrigal Pharmaceuticals Inc
Madrigal (MDGL) is a commercial-stage biopharma focused on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH, formerly NASH). Its lead product, Rezdiffra (resmetirom), received FDA accelerated approval on March 14, 2024 as the first treatment for adults with noncirrhotic MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2–F3), to be used with diet and exercise.
CRMD Cormedix Inc jan 12 Legislative update (KCAPA 2026)
CorMedix Inc. has crossed a line that many small biotechs never reach. It is no longer a binary, pre-revenue story waiting for a single FDA decision. With DefenCath approved, the Melinta acquisition closed and several hundred million dollars of revenue on the board, CRMD now behaves like a small-cap specialty pharma focused on preventing and treating serious infections linked to vascular access.
SMMT Summit Therapeutics Inc
Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) has effectively transformed itself into a single-asset, late-stage oncology company centered on ivonescimab (SMT112), a PD-1 × VEGF bispecific antibody licensed from Akeso in January 2023 (FY2024 PR). Ivonescimab is already approved in China (Akeso) and is now in a broad, global Phase III program led by Summit in NSCLC and colorectal cancer.
RVMD Revolution Medicines
Revolution Medicines, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVMD) enters the 44th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference as a late-stage, pre-commercial oncology company focused on RAS(ON) inhibitors. The company’s FY24 results release (link) positions RVMD as “a late-stage clinical oncology company developing targeted therapies for patients with RAS-addicted cancers,” with a deep pipeline led by daraxonrasib, elironrasib and zoldonrasib.
OCGN Ocugen Inc
Ocugen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCGN) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on gene therapies for blindness diseases and related ophthalmic biologics. Its core asset base is a “modifier gene therapy” platform built around nuclear hormone receptors (NHRs) designed to reset dysfunctional retinal gene networks rather than replace single mutated genes. The three flagship programs are OCU400 for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), OCU410 for geographic atrophy (GA, late-stage dry age-related macular degeneration) and OCU410ST for Stargardt disease, each targeting sizeable unmet-need populations in inherited and multifactorial retinal disease.
CLRB Cellectar Biosciences Inc
Cellectar Biosciences (Nasdaq: CLRB) is a late-stage clinical radiopharmaceutical company built around a proprietary phospholipid drug conjugate (PDC) platform. Its lead asset, iopofosine I 131, delivers radioactive iodine-131 directly to tumor cell membranes; the most advanced program is in relapsed/refractory Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) after BTK inhibitor therapy, supported by the pivotal CLOVER-WaM Phase 2 data described in the company’s Form 10-K 2024 (Business section).
AQST Aquestive Therapeutics
On 9 January 2026, Aquestive Therapeutics announced that the US FDA had identified “deficiencies” in the NDA for Anaphylm (dibutepinephrine sublingual film). These deficiencies currently preclude discussions of labeling and post-marketing commitments.
SAVA Cassava Sciences Inc
A factual deep dive on where SAVA really stands after shutting down Alzheimer’s, pivoting to TSC-related epilepsy, facing a full FDA clinical hold, settling a $31.25M class action and attracting heavy call-option interest and insider buying.