That was more than twice the 17% improvement seen in patients on a placebo. Patients treated with the company's experimental drug achieved a 36.3% improvement in the Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) score from baseline. You'd expect that RAPT's results from the early-stage study of RPT193 had to be fantastic for the biotech stock to more than double. The huge gain came after the company announced positive top-line results from a phase 1b clinical study evaluating RPT193 in treating moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis. RAPT Therapeutics ( NASDAQ:RAPT) stock was crushing it on Monday, with shares skyrocketing 110.4% as of 11:59 a.m. His background includes serving in management and consulting for the healthcare technology, health insurance, medical device, and pharmacy benefits management industries. "The win puts us at level pegging now and we can hopefully go only upwards from here.Keith began writing for the Fool in 2012 and focuses primarily on healthcare investing topics. "If you're on the back foot early in this tournament it's hard to get back," he said. And he was rapt his triple-treat against the Renegades helped deliver the Strikers a win to square their win-loss record after two matches. "And that is what I tried to do and luckily it really paid off for me." Agar was a star of the last BBL tournament, collecting 22 wickets to force his way into the Australian ODI squad. After four weeks of treatment, patients with moderate-to-severe AD who received RPT193 showed a 36.3 improvement from baseline in the Eczema Area and.
"He just talks about being open to the challenge and not really setting too many goals or limits and just enjoying the present. RAPT announced positive topline results from its randomized placebo-controlled Phase 1b clinical trial of RPT193 as monotherapy in 31 patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD). "It's Jonny Wilkinson speaking and it's really insightful and I took a lot of out of it. "And it was just about being in the moment, being open and being a liquid, literally just adapting to your surroundings and being completely engaged in the present. "And he (Ashton) sent me this really good podcast. "I have had a pretty rough start to the season this year and I was struggling to sort of stay in the present," Agar said. Ashton sent Wes a podcast featuring Wilkinson, the Englishman who kicked Australia to defeat in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final in Sydney and who's regarded as one of the game's all-time greats. He discussed his woes with his brother Ashton, a BBL rival at the Perth Scorchers. "Coming back from the Aussie tour, I just didn't get the wickets that I would like and I wasn't bowling as well as I would like," Agar told AAP. The 24-year-old went wicketless in his two ODI's in Bridgetown and, at the start of the Australian domestic summer, struggled. Agar's influential haul came after a period of soul-searching on return to Australia after making his one-day international debut in the West Indies in July. The paceman collected 3-17 and was involved in a run out as the Strikers, after posting 149, bowled out the 'Gades for 100. Agar took man-of-the-match honours in the Strikers' 49-run thumping of the Melbourne Renegades in Thursday night's BBL match.
English rugby union icon Jonny Wilkinson doesn't know it - but he's helped Adelaide Strikers paceman Wes Agar rediscover his mojo.