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Geron soars on Mayo Clinic results for imetelstat

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Finally, there's some good clinical trial news for Geron: The company's telomerase inhibitor imetelstat caused four complete remissions and one partial remission in patients with myelofibrosis in an investigator-sponsored trial at the Mayo Clinic.

Finally, there's some good clinical trial news for Geron: The company's telomerase inhibitor imetelstat caused four complete remissions and one partial remission in patients with myelofibrosis in an investigator-sponsored trial at the Mayo Clinic.

Menlo Park, California-based Geron's stock more than doubled to $7.69 in early trading on 7 November after the American Society...

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