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news.Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation has entered into an agreement for the development of a compact device to produce radioisotopes with the University of Missouri.
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The University of Missouri (MU) holds intellectual property for a system than can generate clinically relevant quantities of radioisotopes (including Mo-99), the production of which normally requires a nuclear reactor. This can be done in a ‘sub-critical system’ with an infrastructure footprint similar to a commercial cyclotron facility.
The partnership between MU and Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation (AMIC) allows for a staged development of such a system to produce medical, research and industrial isotopes. MU currently holds intellectual property for a device that generates neutrons in a tank filled with heavy water and fissile uranium material.
Robert Schenter, chief science officer for AMIC, said: “This proposed device is a response to the limitations of the current model of production and delivery of radioisotopes that require neutrons to either create fission products or to irradiate stable targets.”