Telix today announces it has entered into an agreement to acquire Lightpoint Medical and its SENSEI® radio-guided surgery business. Lightpoint Medical is a United Kingdom-based medical device company specialising in the intra-operative detection of targeted radiopharmaceuticals.

SENSEI is an ultra-miniature robotic gamma probe for intracavital use that is able to provide radiopharmaceutical-based surgical guidance (“radio-guided surgery”) by enabling the intra-operative detection of cancer in real time. Telix’s initial commercial objective is to align SENSEI with Telix’s Illuccix®/TLX599-CDx[1] programs for prostate cancer. Additionally, there is considerable scope to expand into other urologic and non-urologic malignancies. Lightpoint also has innovative capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) for surgical guidance that will complement Telix’s own AI program.

This highly strategic and synergistic transaction broadly strengthens Telix’s capabilities in deploying molecular imaging in the surgical setting. The acquisition will further enhance and differentiate Telix’s innovation position and product depth in urology by enabling targeted radiation to be harnessed across the entire continuum of cancer patient care, from initial diagnosis and staging, to surgical intervention and therapeutic use.
SENSEI has attained a marketing authorisation in the United States, having been registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since September 2020. SENSEI has also attained a Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark for use in the European Economic Area (and other applicable countries) in January 2021 for intra-operative detection of sentinel lymph nodes and cancer metastasis via the lymphatic system, supporting broad clinical use of the product.[2] The SENSEI probe is currently the only gamma probe validated for use with the Intuitive Surgical DaVinci® robotics system.[3]

Telix initially established a strategic collaboration agreement with Lightpoint in August 2021[4] to jointly develop SENSEI with Telix’s investigational PSMA[5]-targeting SPECT[6] imaging agent TLX599-CDx for prostate cancer. The Lightpoint SENSEI business will be integrated into Telix and operate as a new surgeon-focused business unit, driving the ongoing development of SENSEI combined with Telix’s pharmaceutical pipeline. This new business unit will also support development of Telix’s other related medical device and software technologies, such as Telix’s recently acquired artificial intelligence platform.[7]

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