Trading Outlook for ZymoGenetics Inc. Issued by StockPreacher.com

Posted on: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:50:00 EST


Symbols: KG, BMY, ONXX, HGSI, ZGEN
DALLAS, Nov 12, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) --
ZGEN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- StockPreacher.com announces an investment report featuring ZymoGenetics Inc. (Nasdaq:ZGEN). The report includes financial and investment analysis, analyst consensus, and pertinent industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

The investment report on ZymoGenetics Inc. (Nasdaq:ZGEN) should be of particular interest to comparable biopharmaceutical companies: Bristol Myers Squibb Co (NYSE: BMY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), King Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: KG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Human Genome Sciences (Nasdaq: HGSI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

The full report is available at: http://www.stockpreacher.com/n/ZGEN

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ZymoGenetics Inc. (ZGEN) is a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, manufacture and commercialization of therapeutic proteins for the treatment of human diseases, including hemostasis, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, cancer and viral infections. Its products include RECOTHROM, a recombinant thrombin, which is a topical hemostatic agent used for the control of moderate bleeding during surgical procedures. The Company's product candidates in clinical development stages include PEG-IFN-l, a pegylated version of the IFN-l1 protein; IL-21 for the treatment of metastatic melanoma and metastatic renal cell carcinoma; IL-21 monoclonal antibody (mAb) to treat inflammatory diseases; and IL-31 mAb for the treatment of atopic dermatitis and inflammatory diseases.

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In the report, the analyst notes:

"The Company's first internally developed product candidate, RECOTHROM(R) Thrombin, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2008 for use as a topical hemostat to control moderate bleeding during surgical procedures and is now being marketed in the United States. Simultaneously, ZGEN entered into a co-promotion agreement with Bayer Healthcare LLC under which Bayer is assisting the Company with the promotion of RECOTHROM in the U.S. for up to four years, ending in March 2012.

"At the beginning of 2009, ZGEN and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced a global collaboration for PEG-Interferon lambda, a novel type 3 interferon for the treatment of Hepatitis C, and its related development program. Under the terms of the collaboration, Bristol-Myers Squibb agreed to pay ZymoGenetics an upfront cash payment of $85 million for the development and commercialization rights to PEG-Interferon lambda, and to pay an additional license fee of $20 million in 2009."

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