EdgeWater 10/25/2010 9:44:06 PM
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Small Drug Stock Movers (CLRT, MDVN, CTIC, MNKD)

Small Drug Stock Movers

Clarient, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLRT) skyrocketed 33.02% to $4.97. Last week, GE Healthcare, a unit of GE, and Clarient, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for GE Healthcare to acquire Clarient. A subsidiary of GE will commence a tender offer for all outstanding common and preferred shares of Clarient at $5.00 per common share and $20.00 per preferred share, in each case payable in cash.  

Over the past 52-week, the stock traded within the range of $1.88-$5 and is up more than 17% year-to-date.  The stock went up more than 5% year-to-date.

Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDVN) dropped 4.18% to $11.22. Medivation, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company focuses on the development of small molecule drugs to treat serious diseases.

The stock is down more than 70% year-to-date.  

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTIC) went up 5.94% to $0.410. Last week, the company announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell $21.0 million of shares of its Series 7 Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase shares of its common stock in a registered offering to four institutional investors.

Each share of Series 7 Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder, at any time during its existence, into approximately 2,703 shares of common stock at a conversion price of $0.37 per share of common stock, for a total of 56,756,757 common shares.

Over the past 52-week, the stock had traded within the range of $0.12-$1.40.

MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD) jumped 3.83% to close at $6.50. Last week, the company announced the first patient has been dosed in a phase 2 clinical trial of the investigational cancer vaccine MKC1106-MT.

At Friday`s closing market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $857.18 million.

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