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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, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] His tidily rhyming names perhaps destined him for fame. While Jack Kerouac’s work and popularity were before my time, his cultural and literary restlessness assure him […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Gumshoe Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, he chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] OK, admit it….how many of you have seen the campy films of Baltimore director John Waters? The ones starring the […]

[ed note: Dr. KSS is a paid contributor to Stock Gumshoe who writes about biotech stocks for (and discusses them with) the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his alone. Enjoy!] Greetings fellow Irregulars!  You’ve all been waiting for it….our first-ever annual ceremony in which we look back on […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] Conclusion of a Series on Pain [This column is dedicated to recovery from a recent cancer diagnosis  of a stuff-of-legend friend whose life I cherish. She recently […]

[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. He has agreed to our trading restrictions.] If you get infected with CRE in your blood, your lungs, your urine, or your biliary system, what is your chance of […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. His words and opinions are his own, and he has agreed to our trading restrictions.] Want to see something really cool? A hot video clip from a steamy biotech thriller? Watch this. Better yet, when you pull up the video viewing frame, […]

[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!] Readers not familiar with Stock Gumshoe usually arrive wondering if the salivation provoked by stock promotional writers for certain companies is justified. […]

In his tearjerker “Sisters of Mercy,” Leonard Cohen sings, I’ve been where you’re hanging and think I can see how you’re pinned. Although I am less inclined to bash the FDA than many, it has recently let modern medical practice place many patients in an undesirable situation. What if there was a very powerful drug, […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own.] Careful analysis of Ebola sequences in infected Africans confirms this: the entire present Ebola outbreak emerged as a consequence of one boy in Meliandoua, in eastern Guinea, eating a […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. This article is third in a series on pain. You can see the first part here, and second part here. His words and opinions are his own, and he has agreed to our trading restrictions. Enjoy!] It’s the stuff of bucket lists: eating fugu […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions.] Tekmira (TKMR) shares have surged in response to announced use of its anti-Ebola RNAi therapeutic. Despite this, share action has occurred in […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medical topics and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He choses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Part one of this series is here if you missed it. Enjoy!] “The heat was hot and the ground was dry but the air was full of sound. I’ve […]

[ed. note: Dr. KSS writes about biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, but he chooses his own topics and his words and thoughts are his own] According to new SEC filings, Cellceutix President, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Krishna Menon has recently settled what should probably be regarded as […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medical topics and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his thoughts and words are his own. Enjoy!] Here we are, solidly in the postmodern 21st century, “so late in the goddam day,” as one of novelist Martin Amis’s characters says, and what […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medical topics and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his thoughts and words are his own. Enjoy!] Any discussion of cholesterol immediately turns Brobdingnagian, such are the extremes in question. Statins, which lower LDL cholesterol, are bombastically the best-selling drugs of all […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading rules and he chooses his own topics. His words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] In June 1962, women working in the dressmaking arm of a certain American textile factory were overcome with fear. Rumors began […]

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading rules and he chooses his own topics. His words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] Lying in bed beneath an exam lamp, my 16-year-old patient’s facial serenity belied how fervently he was kneading misbaha beads with […]

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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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