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Buzz Stocks Week in Review — EFJI, ETRM, LTBR, MIPI

Friday, June 25th, 2010

AVERAGE WEEKLY GAIN:  70.75%

Here’s a quick recap of how this week’s Buzz Stocks fared:

Monday: Shares of EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFJI) rose 40 percent from last Friday’s close in morning trading on Monday after the company increased its sale price 42 percent. The company will now be acquired by Francisco Partners, an affiliate of a private equity firm for $1.50 per share in cash, up from $1.05 per share.
Up as much as 40% since our post.

Tuesday: EnteroMedics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETRM) was our biggest gainer of the week. Shares opened at $0.31 on Tuesday, and climbed nearly 53 percent to a close of $0.61 after the company announced positive data from its obesity treatment device. The following day, shares soared to $0.81, before settling back down to a closing price of $0.63.
Up as much as 125% since our post.

Wednesday: Lightbridge Corp. (Nasdaq: LTBR) shares were up 50 percent on Wendesday after the nuclear fuel technology developer announced “a major technological breakthrough,” based on a proprietary all-metal fuel assembly design could reduce both initial capital costs per megawatt and annual operating costs per kilowatt-hour of nuclear power. According to a recent news release, this breakthrough makes nuclear power more competitive with other forms of electricity generation while contributing to a significant reduction of CO2 emissions.
Up as much as 69% since our post.

Thursday: Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPI) was first featured as a Buzz Stock of the Day on June 18th after shares rose 30 percent from the previous day’s close, about a week after the company presented nonclinical data demonstrating the utility of the Company’s novel radiopharmaceutical compounds for the molecular imaging of prostate and other tumors. Less than a week later, shares surged 65 percent from Wednesday’s closing price of $1.60, trading at at a high of $2.64 on Thursday after Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced positive data from a completed Phase 2a clinical study of Azedra™, the Company’s lead oncology therapeutic for a common childhood cancer.
Up as much as 49% since our post.

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UPDATE — Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MIPI) – Buzz Stock of the Day

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

We first featured Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPI) on June 18th, after the company announced nonclinical data demonstrating the utility of the Company’s novel radiopharmaceutical compounds for the molecular imaging of prostate and other tumors at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) annual meeting in Salt Lake City.

Less than a week later, Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals announced positive data from a completed Phase 2a clinical study of Azedra™, the Company’s lead oncology therapeutic for a common childhood cancer. Shares were up more than 65 percent from Wednesday’s closing price, in morning trading on Thursday on almost 10-times the company’s average three-month trading volume.

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The company said data from the Azedra study showed that doses of 12 millicurie/kg to 18 millicurie/kg of the drug were tolerated without toxicity and the drug was active in tumors. The main goal of the study was to determine the maximum tolerated dose of Azedra.

“We showed that Ultratrace iobenguane I-131 with AHSC support is feasible at 18 mCi/kg without significant toxicity and with promising partial and complete responses that support proceeding to a pivotal Phase 2 study at18 mCi/kg,” said lead investigator Katherine K. Matthay, M.D., the Mildred V. Strouss Professor of Translational Cancer Research and Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology in Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.

Azedra is currently in advanced clinical trials for the treatment of malignant pheochromocytoma, a rare, hard-to-access neuroendocrine tumor that develops in the core of an adrenal gland.

Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MIPI) – Buzz Stock of the Day

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Shares of oncology-focused biotech, Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPI) were up more than 28 percent in morning trading on Friday.

Last week, the Cambridge-based Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals presented nonclinical data demonstrating the utility of the Company’s novel radiopharmaceutical compounds for the molecular imaging of prostate and other tumors at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) annual meeting in Salt Lake City.

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“Molecular Insight has established a deep pipeline of novel radio-imaging and radiotherapeutic compounds capable of binding to specific disease-related changes at the cellular level for a given cancer for highly targeted results,” said John W. Babich, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, and President of Research and Development for Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Molecular Insight also announced the receipt of SNM’s 2010 Berson-Yalow Award for a nonclinical study demonstrating the potential of Molecular Insight’s compound 99mTc-MIP-1340 to provide accurate imaging of metastatic prostate cancer. 99mTc-MIP-1340 is a small molecule inhibitor of PSMA for molecular imaging of prostate cancer. Preclinical results have confirmed that 99mTc-MIP-1340 binds specifically and with high affinity to PSMA and accumulates in human prostate cancer xenografts.

Other notable biotech for this week include: Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX), Celgene Corp. (Nasdaq: CELG) and CardioNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAT). Biotech could be a bright spot in the market this year, according to some experts.