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7:30 am Registration & Light Refreshments
8:20 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Targeting What Matters: Identifying Key Attributes that Enable Smarter Radioligand Therapeutics to Deliver Better Patient Outcomes
8:30 am Navigating Imperfect Targets: Lessons & Opportunities in Radiopharmaceutical Development
- Assessing the RLT landscape, providing insights into current target successes and guiding future discovery to accelerate development and patient impact
- Opportunities and challenges for RLT R&D, incl. target identification and prioritization (Understanding the rarity of “ideal” targets like PSMA and somatostatin receptors and the implications for success)
- Defining the strategic fit of RLTs, highlighting how they complement existing oncology modalities and enable precision, combination, and patient-tailored therapies
- Future Landscape: a glimpse to the future development of target selection
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9:00 am Overcoming Early Discovery Challenges in Radioligand Therapy Through Imaging-Driven Insights
- Characterizing biodistribution to guide target and candidate selection, enabling early identification of on-target engagement and minimizing off-target liabilities
- Quantifying dosimetry through direct and surrogate imaging approaches, improving radionuclide choice and translational accuracy of absorbed dose estimates
- Integrating multimodal imaging to monitor treatment response, accelerating proof-of-mechanism insights and data-driven optimization of therapeutic design
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9:30 am Speed Networking
This is your opportunity to get face-to-face with many of the brightest minds in nuclear medicine who are working in preclinical development, medicinal chemistry, target discovery, biology and more.
10:15 am Morning Break
10:30 am Radioligand Therapy Product Design: From Concept to the Clinic – Accelerating Safe & Effective Clinical Translation
- Selecting vector, linker, and radionuclide to maximize tumour specificity, retention, and therapeutic index
- Preclinical and manufacturing considerations to ensure scalability, consistency, and early risk reduction
- Achieving the optimal clinical target product profile to drive efficacy, safety, and competitive differentiation in the clinic
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11:00 am Panel Discussion: Strategizing Your Preclinical Program to Remove Obstacles for Your Phase Zero or FIH Trial
- Using early biodistribution and dosimetry to guide safe, effective dosing for phase zero/fih trials
- Confirming target specificity preclinically to reduce off-target risks and strengthen your IND package
- Aligning radiochemistry with GMP standards early to avoid delays and ensure clinical readiness
Intelligent Design of Radiopharmaceuticals: Harnessing Pretargeting Strategies to Combine the Benefits of Antibodies & Small Molecules for Improved Tumor Uptake
11:45 am Pretargeting Strategies to Maximize Tumor Uptake & Minimize Normal-Tissue Exposure
- Allowing more radiation to reach the tumor while sparing healthy tissues
- Combining the strengths of antibodies (long circulation) with small molecules (fast clearance) for safer delivery
- Offering a path to more effective and tolerable treatments and addressing potential complexity in the clinic
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12:15 pm Lunch Break & Networking
Intelligent Design of Radiopharmaceuticals: Exploring Targeting Moiety Strategies for Precise Targeting & Improved Therapeutic Efficacy
1:15 pm Peptide-Based RDC Design to Achieve Target Molecule & Dosimetry Profile
- Investigating strategies to design peptide-based radiopharmaceuticals that precisely bind desired molecular targets for improved therapeutic efficacy
- Understanding methods to predict and modulate radiation distribution, minimizing off-target exposure and enhancing safety
- Gaining insights into integrating design, preclinical evaluation, and dosimetry planning to streamline progression from concept to clinical application
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1:45 pm Intelligent Design of Targeted Radiomers to Unlock First-in-Class Oncology Targets COF-01 & ALT-01
- Expanding radiopharmaceutical reach by drugging first-in-class targets COF-01 and ALT-01
- Optimizing tumor delivery through intelligent ligand design and tunable pharmacokinetics
- Accelerating clinical translation with a data-driven selection and prioritization framework
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2:15 pm Enhancing Internalization & Synergy with Biparatopic Antibodies in HER2-Positive Cancer
- Improving tumor cell uptake to deliver more effective radiation and therapy
- Combining antibodies against distinct HER2 domains to maximize therapeutic impact
- Expanding treatment options for patients with HER2-positive cancers through additive benefits
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2:45 pm Afternoon Break & Scientific Poster Session
This is an informal session to help you connect with your peers in a relaxed atmosphere to forge new and beneficial relationships. With an audience of TRP experts working in Discovery, Preclinical Research & Medicinal Chemistry, you will have the opportunity to display a poster presenting your own work. Additionally, you will have the chance to review others’ posters displaying cutting-edge research from drug discovery and preclinical research in radioligand therapy.
Intelligent Design of Radiopharmaceuticals: Optimizing Targeting Moieties to Improve Tumor Uptake for Superior Therapeutic Performance
3:45 pm Radio-Optimized Vector Engineering (ROVEr™): Abdera’s Novel Design Strategy
- Optimizing pharmacokinetics to maximize tumor uptake and penetration while minimizing off-target exposure and systemic toxicities
- Enhancing therapeutic precision by delivering potent alpha or beta-emitting radioisotopes to selectively destroy cancer cells
- Expanding target scope to address both high- and low-expressing cancer cells, enabling broad applicability across diverse tumor types
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4:15 pm imal Targeting Agents: Choosing Between Antibodies & Ligands to Maximize Efficacy & Overcome Delivery Challenges
- Analyzing differential cellular processing of antibodies versus ligands to guide therapeutic strategy
- Comparing biodistribution of antibodies versus ligands to optimize target delivery
- Identifying opportunities for synergistic efficacy to enhance treatment outcomes