CSBR News & Events

Champions Oncology announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Rob Brainin as CEO and member of the Board of Directors, effective August 25, 2025. Rob, who has served on Champions' Board since 2021, will succeed Dr. Ronnie Morris, who has led the company as CEO since 2017. Dr. Morris will transition to the role of Executive Chair on August 25, supporting the leadership transition while remaining actively involved in the company's strategic initiatives. Brainin most recently served as Chief Business Officer at Veracyte.

Champions Oncology announced the full commercial launch of its radiopharmaceutical services platform. This milestone follows the expansion of the company's radioactive materials license, the completion of the radiochemistry infrastructure, and the successful screening of more than thirty PDX models in collaboration with pharmaceutical and biotech partners. Champions now offers fully integrated radiopharmaceutical workflows combining in vitro, ex-vivo biodistribution, and therapeutic efficacy studies across a wide range of isotopes. The company's platform is uniquely differentiated by its extensive bank of patient-derived xenograft tumor models, enabling drug developers to evaluate radiolabeled agents in clinically relevant systems.Champions updated radioactive materials license now includes support for ten key isotopes: Lu-177, Ac-225, In-111, Cu-67, Y-90, Pb-212, At-211 Tb-161, Cu-64, and Zr-89. These additions enable a wide range of study designs including radioligand therapy, antibody radionuclide conjugates and theranostic approaches.

Champions Oncology has been granted a license to use radioactive materials in preclinical studies. This approval allows in-house work utilizing a variety of clinically relevant radionuclides, significantly expanding the organization's capabilities in the development and assessment of targeted radiotherapeutics. Through this license, Champions Oncology is now uniquely positioned to integrate under one roof radionuclide-based therapeutic testing with the most clinically relevant bank of patient derived xenograft models.

Champions Oncology has announced a strategic collaboration with Turbine. This partnership is set to revolutionize biopharma drug discovery workflows by integrating Champions' multi-omic dataset with Turbine's virtual lab technology. By combining Champions' comprehensively annotated, clinically relevant multi-omic datasets with Turbine's virtual cell-based simulation platform and its capacity to generalize beyond training data, researchers can now conduct in silico experiments with exceptional speed and precision, covering perturbations they would otherwise be unable to investigate. This significant synergy minimizes reliance on traditional laboratory methods and enhances drug discovery initiatives, ranging from target identification to the generation of mechanistic insights, through the integration of highly translational multi-omics datasets.