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7:30 am Morning Registration & Breakfast
8:15 am Ice Breaker
Break the ice before the science begins. Join your table for a light hearted, TRP-themed networking activity designed to get conversations flowing, strengthen connections and maximize your networking opportunities throughout the summit.
8:25 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Identifying & Prioritizing Emerging Targets to Expand the RLT Landscape & Unlock New Therapeutic Opportunities
8:30 am Expanding the RLT Target Landscape: From Novel Target Selection to Candidate Optimization
- Explore the rationale for selecting novel targets with therapeutic potential beyond established RLT targets
- Apply lessons learned from advancing PSMA and FAP programs into clinical development to inform target selection and candidate optimization
- Leverage insights from PSMA and FAP around affinity, internalization, tumor uptake and retention to guide the design of next-generation candidates
9:00 am Understanding Dynamic Target Expression Beyond Receptor Density to Expand the Pool of Viable RLT Targets
- Challenging static receptor-density thresholds to prevent promising therapeutic targets being ruled out too early
- Understanding internalization & receptor replenishment to determine how lowerdensity targets can still deliver sufficient radiation to the tumor
- Redefining “good enough” target expression to identify a broader range of viable targets for RLT development
Novel Target
9:30 am Targeting Immune Biology Beyond the Tumor Cell: Unlocking LFA-1 for Radiopharmaceutical Development
- Explore LFA-1 on leukocytes as an emerging target to move beyond conventional tumor-cell receptor expression
- Harness innate immune biology and leukocyte activity within the tumor environment to identify new opportunities for targeted imaging and therapy
- Translate LFA-1-targeted ligands from imaging into therapeutic applications, leveraging early clinical validation to inform next-generation development
Novel Target
10:00 am Introduction to Speed Networking
10:05 am Speed Networking
A prime opportunity to make the most of in-person networking and forge new connections with an expanding community of experts in the radiopharmaceutical field. Designed to maximize your introduction to numerous new individuals and serve as a catalyst for ongoing discussions during the Summit.
10:45 am Morning Break & Networking
11:00 am Targeting the Extracellular Matrix to Increase Tumor Retention & Expand RLT Across Cancer Types
- Targeting abundant ECM components beyond tumor-cell receptors to reduce dependence on variable or low receptor expression
- Exploiting tumor-specific ECM accumulation & accessibility to deliver and retain greater radioactive retention within the tumor
- Identifying conserved ECM targets across tumor types to unlock RLT opportunities across primary & metastatic disease
Novel Target
Strengthening Target Validation to Select the Most Promising Biology & Increase Confidence in Clinical Translation
11:30 am Closing the Research-to-Clinic Gap: Building the Evidence to Translate an Academic Target into RLT Development
- Validating promising academic biology in increasingly translational models to establish whether the target is robust enough for drug development
- Identifying the critical experiments that increased or challenged confidence to determine when continued investment was justified
- Bridging academic discovery & industry validation requirements to build an evidence package capable of progressing a novel target towards the clinic
Novel Target
12:00 pm Roundtable Discussion: Defining the RLT Target Validation Package to Determine When the Biology Strong Enough to Progress to the Clinic
- Validating tumor-to-healthy expression, prevalence, & heterogeneity to confirm the target is sufficiently selective and consistent to progress
- Assessing accessibility, internalization, replenishment, & density to prove the target can support meaningful radionuclide delivery
- Defining the minimum in vitro, in vivo & imaging evidence to make earlier, higherconfidence target go/no-go decisions
12:30 pm Lunch Break & Networking
1:30 pm Validating Targets in the Brain: Using Imaging to Build Confidence in Therapeutic Potential
- Use brain metastases as a clinical case study to understand target accessibility, engagement, and biodistribution within the challenging brain environment
- Leverage clinical imaging to determine whether a targeting agent can reach and sufficiently accumulate within brain lesions
- Translate lessons from imaging into target-validation criteria for therapeutic development, while accounting for the different requirements of imaging and RLT
Novel Target
Optimizing Drug Design to Maximize Tumor Delivery & Retention While Minimizing Healthy-Tissue Exposure
2:00 pm Engineering High-Fidelity Theranostic Pairs with Covalent Radiohalogens (F-18/I-131/At-211) to Improve Biodistribution, Tumor Retention & Clinical Translation
- Designing covalent radiohalogen therapeutics with matched diagnostic–therapeutic pairs to improve predictive biodistribution and translational confidence
- Overcoming traditional limitations of chelated radiometals by reducing off-target accumulation and enabling blood-brain barrier penetration
- Presenting preclinical imaging and efficacy data showing remarkable tumor control and favorable safety profiles across small molecule and bioligand-tagged platforms
2:30 pm Matching Target, Molecule & Radionuclide to Improve Biodistribution
- Understand how target biology and molecular format should inform early radiopharmaceutical design decisions
- Optimize Affibody-based targeting agents, chelators and radionuclide selection to improve biodistribution and tumor targeting
- Apply successes and failures from candidate development to identify which design characteristics are most likely to translate
3:00 pm Optimizing a DLL3-Targeted Radiotherapeutic Through Preclinical Development
- Explore the preclinical development of a DLL3-targeted radiotherapeutic from candidate design through efficacy evaluation
- Assess how biodistribution, tumor uptake & retention inform optimization of radiotherapeutic performance
- Leverage preclinical findings to guide candidate selection & progression towards clinical development
Novel Target
3:30 pm Afternoon Break & Poster Session
A prime opportunity to make the most of in-person networking and forge new connections with an expanding community of experts in the radiopharmaceutical field. Designed to maximize your introduction to numerous new individuals and serve as a catalyst for ongoing discussions during the Summit.
To submit a poster please reach out to poster@hansonwade.com
Matching Radionuclides to Tumor Biology to Maximize Disease Coverage & Therapeutic Effect
4:30 pm Comparing Alpha vs Beta Radiation Range & Energy to Tumor Biology to Maximize Disease Coveragee
- Assessing tumor size, architecture & target heterogeneity to determine whether short-range alpha or longer-range beta irradiation provides better disease coverage
- Leveraging beta crossfire or high-LET alpha irradiation to overcome differences in target density & spatial distribution
- Matching radionuclide half-life & dose rate to vector PK and tumor residence to ensure radiation is delivered while the targeting agent remains at the tumor
5:00 pm Translating Astatine-211 Targeted Alpha Therapy From Preclinical Development to First-in-Human Studies
- Translate novel At-211 compounds from discovery through preclinical development, examining the studies required to build confidence ahead of clinical translation
- Navigate preclinical toxicity & translational considerations when progressing an At- 211 program towards FIH evaluation
- Share lessons from investigator-initiated Phase I development to identify what early-stage RLT developers should consider when designing the next generation of alpha-emitting therapeutics
Novel Target