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ITG Staff
 


R. Keith Frank, Ph.D.

Dr. Frank is President, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of ITG.  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 125I-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.

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Jaime (Jim) Simón, Ph.D.
Dr. Simón is Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, and co-founder of ITG. He is a radiochemist by training and spent 25 years at Dow 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.

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Alan D. Strickland, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Strickland is Chief Medical Officer of ITG. He spent the earlier part of his career as a professor of medicine and in private practice in pediatric medicine specializing in gastro-enterology. He then earned a Ph.D. in chemistry and joined The Dow Chemical Company.

In his 15 years at Dow, Dr. Strickland helped to develop radiopharmaceuticals and developed new therapies to treat end stage renal disease. In addition Dr. Strickland has experience in the design and execution of clinical trials. He holds 14 US patents and has over 30 publications.

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Prakash "Buck" Bakhru
Mr. Bakhru serves as Director of Business Development for ITG. He is a hands-on product, sales, market and business development professional. Mr. Bakhru's career includes working for The Dow Chemical Company, W.L. Gore & Associates, and Honeywell Inc. While employed by these companies, Mr. Bakhru gained experience in R&D, manufacturing, technical service, product management, market development, sales and business management. Among his several noteworthy accomplishments, he is most proud of leading a wire and cable product management team to increasing revenue from $13MM to $30MM in 5 years. Mr. Bakhru has traveled extensively, both domestically and in Asia Pacific to meet customers and develop new sales and markets for products. He has MS degree in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Missouri-Rolla.

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Jason Rogers
Mr. Rogers is Laboratory Manager and Assistant Radiation Safety Officer.   He joined ITG in 2007.  Mr. Rogers had prior experience in the United States Navy as a Machinist's Mate 2nd Class where he was tasked with the maintenance for all systems dealing with the nuclear reactor plants on the U.S.S. John C. Stennis (Carrier Class CVN-74). He was in charge of divisions averaging 10 people and developed a cataloging and maintenance plan for primary piping systems.

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Druce Crump
Mr. Crump is a Senior Scientist at ITG.  He is a chemist with vast experience in chelating agents product research & development.  He has patented new compositions and formulations, has experience in chemical production plant support, customer support, and in bringing innovative chemistry and engineering ideas successfully to commercialization

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George M. St. George, Ph.D.
Dr. St. George is a Scientist at ITG.  He spent 26 years at The Dow Chemical Company, specializing in the synthesis of chelating agents and metal chelates, and in their industrial scale-up. In addition to over 80 internal Dow research reports, he is the author of nine US patents and an external journal publication. Additionally, he is trained in ISO 9000.

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Scientific Advisory Board

Wynn A. Volkert, Ph.D.
Dr. Volkert is the Director of the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Institute at the University of Missouri. Wynn is an icon in radiopharmaceutical chemistry. He was the main scientist at the University of Missouri responsible for initiating and developing two products from concept to commercialization. These include the Tc-99m based CeretecTM for brain imaging and Quadramet® for relief of pain in bone metastases. The latter is based on the rare earth radioisotope Sm-153. In addition, Wynn has spent the last few years developing new technologies for labeling peptides. His hard work and expertise have been key to the development of the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Institute at the University of Missouri which boasts a complete small animal imaging facility.

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Alan R. Fritzberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Fritzberg is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington. Alan made his mark in nuclear medicine early in his carrier as an inventor of kidney imaging agents. His work while at the University of Utah and the University of Colorado led to the Tc-MAG3 chelates that continue to be used for renal imaging today. He then founded NeoRx Corporation to develop novel approaches to treat cancer based primarily on Re-188 and Re-186. He and his scientific team explored a variety of technologies which makes him extremely versatile in the field. Among them are pretargeting technology to improve target to non-target ratio of antibodies and the development of Ho-166-DOTMP to treat multiple myeloma.

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Theresa W. Fossum DVM, MS, PhD; Diplomate, ACVS
Theresa (Terry) W. Fossum is a Professor of Surgery and holds the Tom and Joan Read Chair in Veterinary Surgery at Texas A&M University. She is a world renowned surgeon and serves as the Director for Cardiothoracic Surgery and Biomedical Devices in the Michael E. DeBakey Institute at TAMU. She was recently appointed Director of the new Texas A & M Institute for Preclinical Studies , a 70 million dollar venture at TAMU which will promote public-private partnerships to speed the development of medical devices and drugs. Dr. Fossum’s leadership was integral in conceptualizing and funding this Institute.

Dr. Fossum sits on the Board of Directors of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) and is a member of the Board of Governors for the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR). Dr Fossum, along with Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, founded the CARE Foundation in 2004 in order to provide an infrastructure for veterinary medicine to perform research using animals with spontaneous disease. Dr. Fossum serves as President of the organization.

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Alan R. Ketring, Ph.D.
Dr. Alan Ketring was involved in the development of Tc-99m heart agents at the University of Cincinnati as a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Ed Deutsch. Alan then had a brief stent at Mallinkrodt before becoming a scientist at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) In his role at MURR as director of the Medical Radioisotope Research and Development program, Alan is very familiar with the production and utility of a wide variety of radionuclides for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications. His expertise in the production, use, safe handling, federal regulations and shipping of radioisotopes was criticalto the development of Quadramet and other potential radiopharmaceuticals currently in preclinical and clinical trials.

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Lewis A Shadoff, Ph.D.
Dr. Shadoff is an analytical chemist. He spent 28 years at The Dow Chemical Company, specializing in the identification and quantification of a wide variety of chemical process, environmental, and pharmaceutical samples. He worked on Quadramet® during its development by confirming the molecular structure and also the species produced by radiation damage as part of a study to assess their potential toxicity. During his tenure at Dow he achieved the highest rung of their scientific ladder.

He has presented papers at National Chemical Society Meetings, AAAS National Meetings, International Dioxin Symposiums, and Italian Chemical Society Meetings. He has over 25 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

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David A. Wilson
Mr. Wilson retired as a Senior Research Scientist in 2006 after more than 37 years of service for the Dow Chemical Company. David was instrumental in commercializing over 30 products during his career, has authored 228 confidential Dow Research Reports, 21 external publications including the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology section on “Chelating Agents”, and is an inventor on over 100 issued U.S. patents including key patents covering Quadramet® (153Sm-EDTMP) for the treatment of bone cancer and STR (166Ho-DOTMP) for ablating bone marrow prior to bone marrow transplants.

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