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by cheng_ho
Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:29 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Worth watching this timely video
Replies: 3
Views: 1862

Re: Worth watching this timely video

Interesting to see the clinician's perspective... and how they miss important aspects of their field. So frustrating to hear him say he would prescribe Luspatercept instead of imetelstat "because of cytopenias"... GERN and Janssen have known about the cyptopenia issue for years, and there are simple...
by cheng_ho
Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:06 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Request to Bill W
Replies: 4
Views: 1858

Re: Request to Bill W

Thanks bp. Of course I meant "clinical advantage", there would be a clear patent advantage to a new molecule for any company besides Geron. That's one of the problems in medicine... we use inferior, substitute molecules for many purposes because they are under patent, while the more suitable natural...
by cheng_ho
Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:56 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Venetoclax combo patent denied?
Replies: 1
Views: 1394

Re: Venetoclax combo patent denied?

SA poster says that the international patent may still fly, just in more specific form: -------------------------------------------- Ex expat Claims would have to be narrowed, but there could be hope. "An independent claim restricted to combinations of Imetelstat sodium (GRN-163L) and Venetoclax (AB...
by cheng_ho
Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:07 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Request to Bill W
Replies: 4
Views: 1858

Re: Request to Bill W

It's just another telomerase inhibitor, like 6-thio-G. I don't see any advantage over 6-thio-G (the advantage of 6-thio-G over imet, remember, is that it doesn't need infusion and it's more powerful), and the disadvantage is that this has never been tested in humans, while 6-thio-G has. Maybe if the...
by cheng_ho
Mon Apr 15, 2019 3:45 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Venetoclax combo patent denied?
Replies: 1
Views: 1394

Venetoclax combo patent denied?

Doesn't look good for the international patent, if I'm reading this correctly. Is there a favorable ruling in the US? https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/docs2/pct/WO2018026646/pdf/8WMFslMpBnibBr_SoHOmfFWN_3fyuqbEDD0Ox8l69Gclo7epfnhSy5BU0KhJw-dvvpYkY33XCeYDgrSzjDQlVw3HPGtqHpTjq8vUpgbKnbRYNi8irsk4xV-...
by cheng_ho
Mon Apr 08, 2019 4:09 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Where are the potential partners?
Replies: 7
Views: 2997

Re: Where are the potential partners?

Congrats on bailing out before the plane crashed, sargasso. Wish I'd overcome my confirmation bias and done the same thing when JNJ pulled the drug off the compassionate-use list... there were plenty of red flags.
by cheng_ho
Mon Apr 08, 2019 4:07 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Kmall - Global Update
Replies: 5
Views: 3585

Re: Kmall - Global Update

Wow, if only there were some organization that had employees dedicated to promoting TI drugs ;) Great contrast here... Scarlett lying on the beach for millions, while kmall desperately works 12-hour days to promote imetelstat... while losing his retirement money in GERN. But it's worse yet for me......
by cheng_ho
Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:48 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: As we approach the annual meeting
Replies: 1
Views: 1359

Re: As we approach the annual meeting

That's a good list of questions. Make sure you post it on SA so that other GERN victims going to the shareholder meeting have it with them... Scarlett has had eight years of non-transparency, which hasn't helped patients or shareholders. >The entire program will not be transferred until the end of Q...
by cheng_ho
Thu Apr 04, 2019 4:32 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Commsman's Pitch for IMBARK Phase 3 to the Geron Executive Management Team
Replies: 3
Views: 2186

Re: Commsman's Pitch for IMBARK Phase 3 to the Geron Executive Management Team

If you read Dr. Raza's essay in the book "This Idea Is Brilliant", she suggests that Phase 3 trials be run like this (except that she has a much more ambitious and detailed plan, adding in longer-term plans for data collection and comparison between trials). Dr. Scarlett may not have bothered to rea...
by cheng_ho
Sun Mar 24, 2019 2:58 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Confirmation Bias, is there a way through it?
Replies: 9
Views: 3755

Re: Confirmation Bias, is there a way through it?

I would guess that IF Geron actually announced a Phase 3 trial fully enrolled and dosing, the stock would go up at least briefly. There is a big difference between Phase 2 and Phase 3 drug approval probability. Recruiting isn't going to be trivial... patients have to swear off other MDS treatments a...
by cheng_ho
Sun Mar 24, 2019 2:44 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: EMA
Replies: 5
Views: 2373

Re: EMA

Respectfully, may I ask your opinion why would there be a chance of approval when in fact Phase 3 in MF is not even certain and remain to be decided. +1. We've been talking about early approval in MF for years... but Scarlett says there won't even be a "decision" as to whether to do an MF Phase unt...
by cheng_ho
Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:31 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Kmall's 100 Day Campaign
Replies: 11
Views: 3935

Re: Kmall's 100 Day Campaign

Hi kmall. Glad to hear that you are well diversified. Not so glad to see you continuing your personal attacks, conspiracy theories, and accusations of "hidden agendas"... I'm not even anonymous. Not only did I work on the early development of imetelstat, I've written many articles supporting TI drug...
by cheng_ho
Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:47 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Kmall's 100 Day Campaign
Replies: 11
Views: 3935

Re: Kmall's 100 Day Campaign

kmall, you should be commended for trying to take positive action. But you didn't get any "response" from Gottlieb... don't let GERN take your SAN points with your retirement money. The first step should be to get information out of GERN... right now, Scarlett is burying the Mayo follow-up data. Not...
by cheng_ho
Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:03 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Confirmation Bias, is there a way through it?
Replies: 9
Views: 3755

Re: Confirmation Bias, is there a way through it?

It's obvious what JS should have done from the beginning... keep the GERN lab, and not go inactive for four years while Janssen tried out imet on the sickest patients they could find. Did you ever get around to reading the Shay lab 2015 papers on telomerase inhibitors? Or at least watch the 2016 vid...
by cheng_ho
Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:01 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Post from biopearl
Replies: 0
Views: 1681

Post from biopearl

Andrew said he was having trouble posting this: -------------------------- If anyone can repost this on Imetelchat for me, please do. I could not get on the site (it has been known to be finicky. Anyway just wanted to put together a few random musings before the conference call tomorrow. Its pretty ...
by cheng_ho
Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:03 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: The JNJ-ARGX deal in MDS/AML
Replies: 1
Views: 1505

The JNJ-ARGX deal in MDS/AML

is there anyone who has looked at the ARGX MDS trial that doesn't think that this is why JNJ dropped imet? https://www.argenx.com/en-GB/news-internal/argenx-provides-detailed-data-from-phase-2-clinical-trial-of-efgartigimod-in-immune-thrombocytopenia-and-phase-12-clinical-trial-of-cusatuzumab-in-acu...
by cheng_ho
Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:10 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Far from a straight line but still on course
Replies: 8
Views: 3236

Re: Far from a straight line but still on course

>"Obviously, there has been a major loss of trust in JNJ/Janssen, Geron, the FDA, the SEC, etc." Exactly. >"our primary means of voicing constructive thoughts are via emails / phone calls to Geron IR and/or written correspondence to the BoD and possibly a comment or question at the annual shareholde...
by cheng_ho
Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:47 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: So, WHICH CRO is deciding GERN's future?
Replies: 0
Views: 1505

So, WHICH CRO is deciding GERN's future?

Does anyone have any idea when we will know: Which CRO is actually going to attempt the task of recruiting for the MDS trial? (To ask patients to not take any other treatment, to use a drug dropped by big pharma, and to take the 1/3, worse than Russian Roulette, chance of dying on placebo? Seriously...
by cheng_ho
Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:57 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: Here are the slides from Dr. Mascarenhas presentation on MF
Replies: 2
Views: 1822

Re: Here are the slides from Dr. Mascarenhas presentation on MF

Good results. And Scarlett's reaction is to announce that there will be no action on MF until the end of Q3 2019!

So as always, we're more bullish than the CEO... which makes no sense at all. Things can't go better for a company than the company's own plans, only worse.
by cheng_ho
Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:27 pm
Forum: ImetelChat
Topic: compassionate use program?
Replies: 9
Views: 4430

Re: compassionate use program?

bp, JNJ did in fact say that the compassionate-use listing was a mistake. And they DID take it off the list BEFORE the discontinuation decision... to our eternal disgrace (and that of our ancestors and descendants), we all ignored that blatantly obvious sign.