Arena rockets on early data in crowded S1P1 field
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Despite a slew of competitors developing more advanced agents, Arena Pharmaceuticals saw its stock price rocket 76.2% higher on 7 January to $5.85 per share based on Phase Ib results for APD334, an orally available small molecule agonist of the sphingosine 1-phosphate 1 (S1P1) receptor.