Molecular Imaging and Alpha-radiopharmaceutical Therapy

Chaitanya Divgi is a nuclear medicine physician-scientist with 30+ years experience in Ivy League institutions leading programs in Nuclear Oncology imaging & therapy. Dr. Divgi leads the scientific and clinical aspects of oncologic imaging, with a focus on drug development design. Previous experience includes over twenty years at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, since 2001 as a professor of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) and Internal Medicine (Immunology); Chief, Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine and Professor, Radiology and Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by Vice Chair Radiology- Research at Columbia University, City of New York. He holds an MD from Bangalore University, India.  Chaitanya trained in Nuclear Medicine at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay, India, and again at MSKCC, New York.

Dr. Ilovich leads the development of imaging agents and biomarkers in pre-clinical and first-in-human stages. He is an expert in the development and evaluation of novel radiolabeled agents for both imaging and targeted radiotherapeutics with a focus on oncology and immuno-oncology. He leads a team of multi-disciplinary scientists and oversees all scientific aspect of non-clinical development and IND writing and contributes to clinical design and implementation of clinical trials.

Dr. Orcutt is Invicro’s VP of Discovery Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT and has expertise in physical chemistry, pharmacokinetic modeling, radiochemistry, and preclinical imaging research across multiple imaging modalities (PET/SPECT/CT). Dr. Orcutt is responsible for Invicro’s contract research program. She manages the contract research team and the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation of single- and multi-site preclinical imaging studies and first-in-human studies of novel radiolabeled biologics. She also manages the integration of modeling & simulation of in vivo pharmacokinetics with preclinical imaging to better understand mechanisms of drug PK, distribution, targeting and efficacy and to guide translational efforts. Dr. Orcutt holds a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her graduate work at MIT in Dane Wittrup’s lab, where she used a combination of protein engineering and mathematical modeling approaches to engineer a novel radioimmunotherapy approach to treating cancer. Following her graduate work, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Center for Molecular Imaging to develop cancer therapeutic and imaging agents.