Carmen I Bigles
Coqui Pharma,USA
Title: Coqui-pharma solving the impending global shortage of molybdenum -99
Biography
Biography: Carmen I Bigles
Abstract
Coquí Radio Pharmaceuticals Corp. is a medical isotope company dedicated to the production of Molybdenum-99, which is used in 20 million procedures each year in the U.S. The Puerto Rican company is based in Coral Gables, Fla., with the mission to bring the foremost medical isotope production facility to the Western Hemisphere and to create a commercially scalable, reliable supply of medical diagnostic and therapeutic radioisotopes in the U.S. This presentation will give an overview of the medical isotope 99Mo and its uses in modern medicine and explore the potential effects of an impending global shortage as nuclear reactors around the world begin to go offline. Carmen will give a thorough overview of Coquí Pharma and its mission to solve the impending shortage crisis as well as explain the technology the firm will employ at its medical isotope production facility.
