Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD
- Associate Professor, Radiology (Winston-Salem)

Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD
Research Interests
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Positron-Emission Tomography
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Nuclear Medicine
- Molecular Imaging
- Cancer Imaging
- Education
- BSc, Osmania University, 2001
- MSc, Osmania University, 2003
- PhD, Northern Illinois University, 2009
- Positions
- Associate Professor, Radiology (Winston-Salem)
- Associate Professor, Cancer Biology (Winston-Salem)
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering (Winston-Salem)
- Associate Professor, Translational Neuroscience (Winston-Salem)
- Departments and Affiliations
- Radiology (Winston-Salem)
- Cancer Biology (Winston-Salem)
- Biomedical Engineering (Winston-Salem)
- Translational Neuroscience (Winston-Salem)
- Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention (CHAAP)
- Center for Addiction Research
- Center for Precision Medicine (CPM)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC)
- Center for Redox Biology and Medicine (CRBM)
Research
- A phase 2A/B randomized trial of metabolic modulators intranasal insulin and empagliflozin for MCI and early AD. Erichsen JM, Register TC, Sutphen C, Ma D, Gaussoin SA, Rudolph M, Rundle M, Bateman JT, Lockhart SN, Sai KKS, Whitlow C, Craft S. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Oct; 21(10):e70704.
- Imaging microtubule dynamics: A new frontier in biomarker development for neurodegenerative diseases. Damuka N, Lockhart SN, Solingapuram Sai KK. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Sep; 21(9):e70670.
- First-in-human positron emission tomography study of intranasal insulin in aging and MCI. Sai KKS, Erichsen JM, Gollapelli KK, Krizan I, Miller M, Damuka N, Register TC, Sutphen C, Craft S. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2025; 11(3):e70123.
- Imaging of Microtubules in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Alcohol Use Disorder. Damuka N, Miller MD, Krizan I, Bansode AH, Bradley C, Bashetti N, Jv SK, Galbo-Thomma LK, Czoty PW, Solingapuram Sai KK. ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci. 2025 May; 8(5):1313-1319.
- Effects of Long-Term Cocaine Self-Administration on Kappa Opioid Receptors in Socially Housed Cynomolgus Monkeys as Assessed with PET Imaging and Neuronally Derived Exosomes. Johnson BN, Allen MI, Nader SH, Sai KKS, Kumar A, Su Y, Singh S, Li S, Huang Y, Deep G, Nader MA. Biol Psychiatry. 2025 Mar;