Actinium Pharmaceuticals Announces ATNM-400 Data Demonstrating Potent Efficacy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Ability to Overcome Endocrine and HER2-Targeted Therapy Resistance Being Presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
- Presentation to include new data in triple-negative disease, a breast cancer subtype with poor outcomes and limited viable treatment options
- ATNM-400 overcomes HER2 therapy resistance and represents a novel targeted radiotherapy with the potential to avoid off-target toxicities including ILD that constrains other therapeutic modalities such as antibody drug conjugates
- ATNM-400 has demonstrated the potential to overcome resistance to first-line tamoxifen endocrine therapy
- Data to be presented on
December 11, 2025 at5:00 PM CT
Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women, with hormone receptor positive (HR+) disease representing more than 70% of cases. Despite the widespread use of tamoxifen and other endocrine therapies, approximately 20-30% of patients experience disease recurrence. Similarly, resistance to HER2-targeted therapies such as trastuzumab develops in a significant proportion of HER2+ breast cancer patients. While HER2-targeted antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) like trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu®, Daiichi-Sankyo/AstraZeneca) have demonstrated efficacy, their clinical utility is constrained by dose-limiting toxicities, including interstitial lung disease (ILD). TNBC is associated with poor outcomes with approximately 40 percent of patients having rapid disease relapse.
ATNM-400's Differentiated Profile and Mechanism of Action in Breast Cancer
ATNM-400 represents a fundamentally different therapeutic approach, leveraging the potent alpha-particle emission of Actinium-225 to deliver targeted radiation to breast cancer cells. ATNM-400's target antigen is overexpressed in breast cancer and linked to disease progression, metastasis, and poor clinical outcomes. Importantly, expression of this target is significantly elevated in patients who develop resistance to both endocrine therapy and HER2-targeted treatments, providing a strong mechanistic rationale for ATNM-400 in resistant disease settings.
Unlike conventional ADCs, ATNM-400 via its Ac-225 isotope payload has the potential to provide potent tumor killing while potentially reducing off-target lung toxicity—a critical differentiating factor that could expand treatment options for patients unable to tolerate current therapies.
ATNM-400's Pan Tumor Potential Extends to Prostate and
In addition to breast cancer, ATNM-400 has demonstrated potent efficacy and the ability to overcome treatment resistance in metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). By targeting a distinct, non-PSMA antigen associated with treatment resistance and poor outcomes, ATNM-400 represents a mechanistically differentiated alpha-radiotherapy approach that has potential in various treatment settings in prostate cancer as a monotherapy, combination therapy or sequential therapy after androgen receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI) therapy or PSMA-targeted radioligand therapy such as Pluvicto® (Novartis). ATNM-400's target antigen is also overexpressed in NSCLC, associated with poor prognosis and treatment resistance Preclinical data showed ATNM-400's differentiated potential as monotherapy, combination therapy with EGFR-inhibitors like osimertinib (TAGRISSO®, AstraZeneca) and in post-EGFR-resistance settings.
ATNM-400 SABCS Presentation Details
Abstract Title: Anti-tumor activity of ATNM-400, a first-in-class Actinium-225 antibody radioconjugate, in tamoxifen and trastuzumab resistant breast cancer models
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Abstract Number: 2069
Presentation Number: PS4‑04‑26
Date/Time: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM CT
Session: Poster Session 4
Key Preclinical Findings
Actinium's preclinical studies to date evaluated ATNM-400 across multiple breast cancer subtypes, including HR+, HER2+, and triple-negative disease, with particular focus on models resistant to tamoxifen and trastuzumab. Key findings include:
- Robust Tumor Growth Inhibition: In HR+ MCF-7 xenograft models triple-negative and MDA-MB-468 models, ATNM-400 achieved robust tumor growth inhibition (TGI) across dose levels with TGI exceeding 100% at higher doses.
- Activity in Resistant Models: ATNM-400 retained significant efficacy in both tamoxifen-resistant and trastuzumab-resistant cell lines and xenograft models, demonstrating its ability to overcome established resistance mechanisms that limit current therapies.
- Enhanced Target Expression in Resistant Disease: Target protein expression was significantly elevated in tamoxifen- and trastuzumab-resistant cell lines compared to parental lines, supporting the mechanistic link between target expression and therapeutic resistance.
- Combination Potential: In vitro studies demonstrated that ATNM-400's potent, dose-dependent cytotoxicity as monotherapy was further enhanced when combined with standard-of-care agents, suggesting potential for rational combination regimens.
- Favorable Tolerability Profile: ATNM-400 was well tolerated across efficacious dose ranges in all xenograft models tested.
Addressing Critical Unmet Needs in Breast Cancer
"These preclinical data that will be presented at SABCS underscore ATNM-400's potential to transform outcomes for breast cancer patients who have limited therapeutic options after developing resistance to endocrine or HER2-targeted therapies and those with triple-negative disease," said
Actinium noted that ATNM-400's target demonstrates elevated expression specifically in resistant disease settings, potentially enabling patient selection strategies that could optimize clinical benefit as either a monotherapy or in combinations. This precision approach aligns with Actinium's broader strategy of developing targeted radiotherapies that address validated biology in areas of high unmet medical need.
About ATNM-400
ATNM-400 is a highly innovative, first-in-class, and multi-indication Actinium-225 (Ac-225) targeted radiotherapy candidate in development for prostate cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and breast cancer. ATNM-400 is highly differentiated in prostate cancer as it targets a distinct non-PSMA protein strongly implicated in prostate cancer disease biology including progression and treatment resistance. Unlike 177Lu-PSMA-617, the active agent in Pluvicto® and the majority of radiotherapies under development, which rely on PSMA targeting, ATNM-400 is designed to maintain efficacy in low-PSMA or high-PSMA resistant disease, a major unmet clinical need as up to 30% of patients do not respond to PSMA radioligand therapies and up to 60% of patients have at least one PSMA-negative tumor lesion. Ac-225 delivers high-linear-energy-transfer alpha particles that induce irreparable double-strand DNA breaks, offering superior potency over beta emitters like Lutetium-177 (177Lu), and has a shorter tissue path length that may reduce off-target toxicity. The receptor specifically targeted by ATNM-400 continues to be expressed at a high level even after androgen receptor inhibitor (ARPI) and ATNM-400 has shown to overcome resistance to the ARPI therapy enzalutamide and work synergistically in combination with enhanced tumor control including complete tumor regression. In NSCLC, ATNM-400 has shown superior efficacy compared to approved first, second- and third-line EGFR therapies including small molecules, antibody drug conjugates and bispecific antibodies that is synergistic with osimertinib, an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that is a standard of care therapy approved for treatment of patients in the frontline setting and is also able to overcome osimertinib resistance.
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Actinium is a pioneer in the development of targeted radiotherapies intended to meaningfully improve patient outcomes. ATNM-400, Actinium's lead product candidate, is a novel, first-in-class, and multi-indication Actinium-225 (Ac-225) in development for prostate cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and breast cancer. The antigen specifically targeted by ATNM-400 is highly expressed in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), contributes directly to disease progression, poorer survival outcomes, and continues to be expressed at a high level even after androgen receptor inhibitor (ARPI) and Pluvicto® treatment. ATNM-400 is supported by preclinical data demonstrating tumor-specific uptake, higher efficacy than androgen receptor inhibitor enzalutamide (Xtandi®) and 177Lu-PSMA-617 radiotherapy, the active agent in Pluvicto®, durable tumor control and potent efficacy in prostate cancer models resistant to both enzalutamide and 177Lu-PSMA-617. In addition, ATNM-400 has demonstrated synergy with enzalutamide. In NSCLC, ATNM-400 showed superior efficacy to EGFR targeting therapies including osimertinib (TARGRISSO®, AstraZeneca), Dato-DXd (DATROWAY®, AstraZeneca/Daiichi Sankyo) and amivantamab (RYBREVANT®, J&J) with synergistic activity in combination with osimertinib. In breast cancer, Actinium has been studied in hormone and HER-2 resistant settings with data to be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in
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