Isoray Completes Merger with Viewpoint Molecular Targeting to Advance New Treatment Paradigm in Targeted Precision Oncology Medicine
CORALVILLE, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viewpoint Molecular Targeting®, Inc., a precision oncology company developing alpha-particle therapies and complementary diagnostic imaging agents, today announced the first dosing of two neuroendocrine tumor patients with therapeutic intent. VMT-?-NET, which is being developed for the treatment and diagnosis of somatostatin receptor subtype 2 (SSTR2) expressing neuroendocrine tumors, was administered to the patients in early December. The dosed patients were diagnosed with confirmed-advanced somatostatin expressing neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
RICHLAND, Wash. & CORALVILLE, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Isoray, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: ISR), a medical technology company and innovator in seed brachytherapy, and Viewpoint Molecular Targeting, Inc., a radiopharmaceutical company developing precision lead-212-based ?-particle oncology therapeutics and complementary diagnostic imaging agents, today announced they will hold an investor webcast Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 4:15 p.m. EDT. The presentation will provide an overview of Viewpoint’s pipeline along with a review of data presented at this year’s European Association of Nuclear Medicine conference which concludes on October 19 in Barcelona, Spain. Speakers on the call will include Isoray CEO Lori Woods, Viewpoint Molecular Targeting CEO Thijs Spoor, Viewpoint Molecular Targeting CSO and co-founder Michael K. Schultz PhD, Geoffrey Johnson MD, PhD, lead investigator on TIMAR1, Vikas Prasad MD, director of clinical theranostics at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.
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