** Drug developer vTv Therapeutics' shares VTVT.O rise 3.2% to $16.3 premarket
** Brokerage H.C. Wainwright starts coverage with "buy" rating, sets PT at $36
** The new price target is more than double the stock's last close
** Brokerage says a late-stage study of "underappreciated" diabetes therapy is set to resume in Q2 after the FDA lifted the clinical hold in March 2025
** Company is testing cadisegliatin, an oral adjunctive therapy to insulin for treatment of type 1 diabetes
** Brokerage believes overhang has been lifted from VTVT's shares and company can now enroll the patients in the late-stage study
** Up to last close, stock up 14.4% YTD
(Reporting by Siddhi Mahatole)
((siddhi.mahatole@thomsonreuters.com))
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