Personnel

Management

R. Keith Frank, Ph.D.

President/CEO

Dr. Frank is a co-founder of IsoTherapeutics. A synthetic organic chemist by training, he has spent the first 23 years of his career at The Dow Chemical Company. His principle activity was in the development of radiopharmaceuticals, including two approved products (Quadramet® and I-125 IotrexTM). He holds 22 US patents and has over 30 publications.

Dr. Frank initiated and led ChelaMedSM radiopharmaceutical services at Dow. In that role he helped other companies develop radiopharmaceuticals and taught them about isotopes and conjugation chemistry. He also has expertise in developing tumors in animal studies and in radiation dosimetry.

Jaime (Jim) Simón, Ph.D.

VP/CSO

Dr. Simón is a co-founder of IsoTherapeutics. He is a radiochemist by training and spent 25 years at The Dow Chemical Company where he was responsible for a group dedicated to developing new pharmaceutical technologies. He holds over 50 US patents, including the key patents covering Quadramet® (153Sm-EDTMP) for the treatment of bone cancer and STR (166Ho-DOTMP) for safely ablating bone marrow prior to bone marrow transplants. Dr Simón has over 70 publications.

Lance Cooper

Director Of Business Development And Chemist

Lance Cooper has more than thirty years of increasing and varied responsibilities in the chemical industry that has included:

  • Customer Technical Service
  • Manufacturing Issue Management
  • Product Stewardship Management
  • Chelation / Metal Ion Control Expertise
  • Detergent / Cleaning Formulation Development
  • Polyurethane Technology Expertise
  • Product specification development
  • Quality Management System Expertise

Board of Directors

Keith Frank

Jim Simón

Lonnie Key

Steve Ellebracht

Telix Expands U.S. Development and Manufacturing Infrastructure with Acquisition of IsoTherapeutics

Melbourne (Australia) – 9 April 2024. Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces the completion of the acquisition of IsoTherapeutics Group, LLC (IsoTherapeutics).

IsoTherapeutics is a privately held, commercial-stage company that provides radiochemistry and bioconjugation development and contract manufacturing services to numerous companies in the radiopharmaceutical industry, including Telix. The acquisition further enhances Telix’s in-house development capabilities and expands Telix’s United States (U.S.) manufacturing footprint with particular focus on bioconjugation and isotope processing.

Dr Christian Behrenbruch, Managing Director and Group CEO of Telix said, “The acquisition of IsoTherapeutics Group is a significant milestone in Telix’s continued focus on vertical integration of development, supply and manufacturing and is highly complementary to Optimal Tracers (Sacramento, California), ARTMS (Vancouver) and our extensive commercial manufacturing infrastructure in Belgium. In the IsoTherapeutics team, we have partnered with some of the leading experts in radiochemistry and I am excited at what we can achieve together going forward.”