Professional Background:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Kopka (HZDR, Germany) is a radiopharmaceutical chemist and holds a full professorship (W3) for Bioinorganic and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry at Technical University Dresden, Germany, which is combined with the directorship of the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf [HZDR]. Between 2013 and 2019 he held a W3 position at Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany. At the same time he was head of the Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry at the German Cancer Research Center [DKFZ] in Heidelberg. In 2018 Klaus Kopka was honoured together with his colleagues Michael Eisenhut, Matthias Eder and Uwe Haberkorn with the highly recognized “The Stifterverband Science Award – Erwin Schrödinger Prize” of the Helmholtz Association.

Research Interests:

He was involved in the development of the theranostic prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeting radiotracers, i.e. PSMA-617 (approved as Pluvicto), PSMA-914 and PSMA-1007 (approved as Radelumin). His current research interests focus on radiopharmaceutical drug development; radiopharmaceutical sciences; medicinal radiochemistry; radionuclide production and radionuclide theranostics; targeted endoradiotherapy; noninvasive molecular imaging. His scientific output includes 269 publications, corresponding to 13,144 citations (h-index 57) (Scopus, 16-July-2024).