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$IBRX Today was the single most important data point in Anktiva’s history, and it’s being underpriced.
For years the bear case has been one sentence: every Anktiva approval rests on single-arm trials. No control arm. No head-to-head. Compared against historical benchmarks rather than a real comparator. That critique was fair, and it capped how seriously the platform was taken.
That ended today. QUILT-2.005 randomized 366 BCG-naïve patients to Anktiva + BCG versus BCG alone — the actual standard of care for 30 years — and met its primary endpoint. Not a responder analysis. Not a historical comparison. A controlled, randomized win against the drug it has to beat.
This matters beyond bladder. The entire IL-15 thesis — that activating NK and T cells produces durable responses — had never been tested against a comparator and proven. Now it has. Every downstream program inherits that validation.
Revenue quarters are recoverable. A failed randomized trial isn’t. Today was the irreversible one.
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