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An Interview With Rising Leader Greg Mullen, CEO of Theragnostics

 
• By Sten Stovall

Theragnostics’ CEO Greg Mullen aims to use his wide-ranging “hands-on” scientific and commercial experience to help clinch a $45m series A financing round that will fund a Phase I/II basket study to develop the biotech’s lead radiotherapeutic PARP inhibitor.

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Shepherding radiopharmaceuticals start-up Theragnostics Ltd. up to and through a planned series A financing this year is a key strategic aim of its CEO Greg Mullen. The funding round will give the transatlantic biotech the financial runway to put its lead therapeutic product, an iodine-123 labeled PARP inhibitor, into clinical development as a targeted radionuclide therapy.

Called THG-009, the radiotherapeutic poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor is designed to deliver doses of radiation to tumours, killing cancer cells...

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