Cassava Sciences (SAVA) is one of the hottest stocks on the market.
Since mentioning it yesterday, the stock has now run from $108 to $126.48.
From here, it could see higher highs, as we near its presentation at the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on July 26. The presentations will include “Cassava Sciences’ investigational product candidates include simufilam, a drug treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, and SavaDx, a biomarker/diagnostic to detect Alzheimer’s disease with a simple blood test,” as noted in a company press release.
As also noted in a company press release:
On Monday, July 26th, at approximately 10 am ET, scientists for Cassava Sciences will show a poster presentation at AAIC, titled “SavaDx, a Novel Plasma Biomarker to Detect Alzheimer’s Disease, Confirms Mechanism of Action of Simufilam”.
On Thursday, July 29th, at approximately 11 am ET, simufilam will be featured in a live podium presentation at AAIC, including a brief Q&A session. This oral presentation will announce results of an interim analysis on safety and cognition for the first 50 patients with Alzheimer’s disease to complete 9 months of open-label treatment. Scientists for Cassava Sciences will also present biomarker data analyzed from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collected from 25 study subjects at baseline and again after completing 6 months of open-label drug treatment, including:
- Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid beta42, total tau, P-tau181
- Biomarkers of neurodegeneration: neurogranin, neurofilament light chain (NfL)
- Biomarkers of neuroinflammation: YKL-40, sTREM2 and HMGB1
