The Daily Biotech Pulse: Gilead's Filgotinib Stumbles With FDA, JJ Laps Up Momenta In $6.5B Deal, 2 IPOs Scaling The Peaks (Biotech Stocks Hitting 52-week Highs Aug. 18) Avenue Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ATXI ) Checkmate Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: CMPI ) DarioHealth Corp (NASDAQ: DRIO ) iTeos Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ITOS ) Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMSI ) Natera Inc (NASDAQ: NTRA ) Nurix Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: NRIX ) Otonomy Inc (NASDAQ: OTIC ) Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ: PACB ) Pacira Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ: PCRX ) PDL BioPharma Inc (NASDAQ: PDLI ) Principia Biopharma Inc (NASDAQ: PRNB ) Qiagen NV (NYSE: QGEN ) Shockwave Medical Inc (NASDAQ: SWAV ) Silk Road Medical Inc (NASDAQ: SILK ) Syros Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: SYRS ) Down In The Dumps (Biotech Stocks Hitting 52-week Lows Aug. 18) Acorda Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ACOR ) Alector Inc (NASDAQ: ALEC ) Eyepoint Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: EYPT ) Interpace Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ: IDXG )(announced receipt of letters from recently departed employees regarding billing and compliance issues) Iterum Therapeutics PLC (NASDAQ: ITRM ) NanoVibronix Inc (NASDAQ: NAOV ) Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSTX )( announced clinical hold on its Phase 1 prostate cancer study) Predictive Oncology Inc (NASDAQ: POAI ) Recro Pharma Inc (NASDAQ: REPH ) Unity Biotechnology Inc (NASDAQ: UBX ) Stocks In Focus Venrock Reports Purchase of 451K Unum Shares Unum Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: UMRX ) shares advanced after Venrock Healthcare Partners III L.P. said in a filing it has purchased 451,000 shares of Unum's common stock in a series of transactions effected between Aug. 14 and Aug. 18, bringing the total number of shares owned by the fund to 4.355 million The stock climbed 16.24% to $3.15 in after-hours trading.