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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

Chief Executive Officer, Vitsgen Therapeutics, Inc.
  • 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

Senior Vice President, Targeted Radio Therapeutics, Molecular Partners
  • 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

Founder, CEO and Chairman, iSeek Biopharma
  • 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

Chief Scientific Officer, Matrisome Bio
  • 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

Professor of Radiology, Director of Molecular Theranostics Laboratory, Harvard Medical School
  • 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

Chief Executive Officer, Ratio Therapeutics
  • 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

Chief Executive Officer, RadioPharm Theranostics
  • 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

Chief Scientific Officer, dGenThera
  • 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

Chief Scientific Officer, Affibody AB
  • 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

Vice President & Head of Preclinical Development, Mariana Oncology
  • 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

Chief Scientific Officer, dGenThera
  • 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

Associate Professor, Osaka University
  • 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

5:30 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

5:35 pm End of Scientific Day One