Project description
Next-generation cancer diagnostics and treatment
Some of the most promising cancer treatments use radioactive molecules. However, producing these molecules is currently complex, slow, and costly. The EIC-funded TETRAKIT project is developing a simple, rapid, and versatile platform that makes attaching radioactive labels to cancer-targeting molecules significantly easier. Based on an ultrafast chemical reaction, the platform works like a universal adapter, and is compatible with virtually any radioactive label and any targeting molecule. The lead application involves an aggressive form of breast cancer with poor survival rates. If successful, this technology could dramatically accelerate the development of next-generation radioactive therapies and diagnostics.
Objective
TetraKit Technologies (TT) is developing the TetraKit Platform, a universal radiolabelling platform that enables the synthesis of novel therapeutic and diagnostic (theranostic) radiopharmaceuticals (RPs). By overcoming the limitations of currently available radiochemistry solutions, TT will address the unmet need for an innovative approach that makes radiolabeling, specifically with radiohalogens, simple, rapid, effective and scalable. Based on an ultrafast next generation tetrazine ligation and linker technology, the TetraKit Platform allows labelling of any biomolecule (target vector) with any radiohalogen or radiometal, according to a versatile ‘plug-and-play’ principle. As such, TT will facilitate unleashing the full potential of novel theranostic RPs to serve the need of millions of cancer patients worldwide.
To validate the TetraKit Platform, TT seeks EIC Accelerator blended financing to advance the clinical development of the lead asset emerging from the platform, 131I-DualFAPi, an iodine-131-labelled therapeutic RP that targets the fibroblast activation protein (FAP) – THE ‘next billion-dollars theranostics target’. Initially to be developed for the treatment of metastasized Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), an aggressive type of cancer with poor survival chances, TT’s lead asset will be the first radiohalogenated FAP-targeting therapeutic RP in clinical development, made possible by the TetraKit Platform. Completion of a Phase 1/2 program in TNBC patients will present a significant value inflection point for TT, which is anticipated to result in a strategic partnership for the final development and commercialization steps. Successful development of 131I-DualFAPi will be an essential milestone that will allow TT to fully exploit the TetraKit Platform, bringing immense commercial and societal value.
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- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- natural sciences chemical sciences nuclear chemistry radiochemistry
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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HORIZON-EIC-ACC - HORIZON EIC Accelerator
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02
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2200 Kobenhavn
Denmark
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