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I am an MD with an additional PhD in biochemistry, and for the past 20 years, in addition to practicing, being a researcher, and conducting clinical trials, I have been investing in biotech companies. I earned my degrees at a top 10 US institution, where I was an NIH scholar and graduated with top honors. I have extensive post-doctoral research experience and am board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. I am a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha (academic honor societies, the latter in medicine) and am a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American equivalent of being FRCP in certain Anglophone countries. My hobbies are traveling (I have been to 100 countries), chamber music, literature, film and Asian pottery.My goal as a Stock Gumshoe contributor is to discuss companies and use discussions of their technology, their drugs or planned drugs, as ways of teaching about physiology and disease states, along with their issues and opportunities.Dr. KSS was a paid contributor to Stock Gumshoe, he ceased contributing new content as of 2018. He agreed to our trading restrictions, chose his own topics, and his words and opinions were and are his own.

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[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] It’s a warm Sunday afternoon a few months […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] Remember that British group with frontman Robert Smith? […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] After the New Year, we plan to look […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] Ho ho ho! And Happy Christmas to all […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “I live in the light of the bright summer […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine biotech stocks for the Gumshoe Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Visit his Stock Gumshoe page for his past articles and most recent comments.] Assessing biotechnology stocks involves use of lots of mental microscopes and magnifying lenses. But the task […]

[Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trade restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all his past articles and more recent comments here.] Picture the gurbling fumaroles of Yellowstone: from the late 1990’s and on into […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his articles archived here. Enjoy!] CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, which recently moved from Durham, NC, to Cambridge, MA, plans an initial public offering. Recent news suggests the […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. His bio, past articles, and most recent comments can be seen here. Enjoy!] OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He choses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions. Enjoy!] In his smoky baritone, singer Stuart Staples of British midlands musical act Tindersticks is bemoaning how he suspects the woman he […]

“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.”  — Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., Professor of Medicine , Harvard “With all his conscience and one eye askew, So false he […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. This piece is for reference. You can see all of his articles here.] For biotech Irregulars, this is a concise overview of what goes on in each phase […]

[Ed. Note: This bonus note is by Dr. KSS, who writes about medicine and biotech stocks for our Irregulars. As with all our contributors, he chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trade restrictions. Discussion of this topic will continue under Dr. KSS’s latest full […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] It could be the premise of a tawdry unrated movie that teenage boys sneak glimpses of on Netflix when they’re home alone. […]

MEI Pharma ($MEIP) is a NASDAQ-listed $133M biotech based in San Diego that was spun out by prior owner Australian biotech Novogen ($NVGN), a firm now facing NASDAQ delisting for failing to meet requirements, in 2012. Though I can certainly understand the reluctance of rational biotech investors to avoid any firm even vaguely associated with […]

Recent Author Comments

On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

You certainly are. I resent what you have done. You are a monster and are not welcome on my threads. You have deeply and profoundly offended me and do not deserve the kindness I have shown you. You've flung a lot of shit tonight mister and caused a lot of [...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

It's utterly pathetic. The troublemaker in question wrote to Travis to stir up trouble between him and me and so now everyone in question is quite thoroughly up in arms. Thank you for that. I' ve had really a rough day exerting myself on behalf of.....no, [...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

The issue is purely a Thoreauvian one....give yourself over entirely to your fellow man and they deem you cheap and worthless. Thus I utterly bust my ass in SF providing night and day coverage and the board here degenerates into rancor, name-calling and Pa[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Placebo non-responders are not re-randomized. They were already randomized. They cross over into the therapy arm, which consists solely of placebo non-responders. It's the protocol NIMH is now using. The placebo and test drug therapy durations prior to end[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

My sentiments precisely. Since lately people are so rancorous that everything i DARE to post incurs a need for 20 more posts to deal with the aftermath of trying to be helpful, I'm not posting any more for a few days. Stop expecting me to be other than hum[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Tenenbaum is CEO, not CFO, of Bellerophon.[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

It wasn't directed at you or at anybody. It's just me stating that at certain kinds of tasks, I don't do well. I am not good at scheduling and organizing events, and don't feel comfortable when tasked with such. Just my nature. I am good at showing up and [...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

It's not screening applicants. Actually, I ran the trial design by my close friend Vasiliy Vlassov, MD, PhD, an internationally revered expert in trial design and trial analysis, and he said it's highly novel but ethically sound, just a very amped up adapt[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Something I've tried to convey to readers is that sometimes there are things I know are about to happen with companies where I can't reveal it....that I have been explicitly told to be keep quiet about it. This is one of those times with $APTO. A cluster o[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

I honestly don't understand the question.[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Honestly, I don't think it's right or fair that I prepare all the content for the call and work myself as hard as I have this week but that I also have to be responsible for scheduling the call and absorbing ALL the feedback from those who don't want it wh[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

I've still got a number of post-meeting follow-up things to do.....lists and lists, piles of business cards to respond to. My suggestion is that we move it to next week. We had spoken of trying it on Saturdays. My suggestion is Saturday, 10 Feb, at 1 pm ET[...]

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https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/mit-study-finds-14-trials-see-approvals-higher-than-first-thought?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RNNVpXRm1NalJrWkRCaSIsInQiOiJ6QyswRWYrNUJtWFhtSG0zWVJHODZTK2ZtK3pjb0diQ0RyY2VoRndPWFI1MndXYmVBMVYzc2NNZzhXcnVMVDJVb05YaWQxWGhwYlZkWldH[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Well, the two agents from Naurex and Vistagen aren't directly comparable: Naurex's drug is exclusively iv. But, yes, I think Singh would like shareholders to think of that as a template for the prospective future. It's fairly clear that beyond writing out [...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Lumpy: $EBIO looks pretty good to me here. I'm not personally in it-----merely for lack of funds-----but I would personally hold on to it here even after a 50 percent run. Don't take that as formal advice, it's just what I would do. It's still way underval[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

This could be any of us https://splinternews.com/how-to-not-die-in-america-1822555151/amp[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

The trick here is that people tend to assume that when oncolytic viruses do their thing, that they shrink tumors by causing breakup of tumor cells (kind of like what bacteriophages do to bacteria). But that's only half right. Listen, when you shred tumor c[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

They'd not be having an R&D day if there was not something positive to present and a way forward. I HAVE said for months I predict positive data in phase 2 despite the fact that things do look dodgy on first impression. No personal position in $HTBX at pre[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Ja...I met with the CEO last night and have been emailing with him this am. Think we're going to definitely run with this one this year. I want to poke around for a couple more weeks and review kallikrein pharmacology, but I suspect they are clasping at so[...]

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On Dr. KSS Liveblog: Noblecon 14

Nice work, Curt. Proud of you.Folks I am travelling today....may not get to post much.[...]

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