Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Radiology

Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD
Research Interests
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Positron-Emission Tomography
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Nuclear Medicine
- Molecular Imaging
- Cancer Imaging
- Education
- BSc, Osmania University, Hyderabad - India, 2001
- MSc, Osmania University, Hyderabad - India, 2003
- PhD, Northern Illinois University, 2009
- Positions
- Assistant Professor, Radiology
- Departments and Affiliations
- Radiology
- Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention
- Center for Redox Biology and Medicine
- Center for Substance Use and Addiction
- Center for Precision Medicine
Research
- Lipocalin-2 is an anorexigenic signal in primates. Petropoulou PI, Mosialou I, Shikhel S, Hao L, Panitsas K, Bisikirska B, Luo N, Bahna F, Kim J, Carberry P, Zanderigo F, Simpson N, Bakalian M, Kassir S, Shapiro L, Underwood MD, May CM, Soligapuram Sai KK, Jorgensen MJ, Confavreux CB, Shapses S, Laferrère B, Mintz A, Mann JJ, Rubin M, Kousteni S. Elife. 2020 11; 9
- Journal of Radiology & Radiation therapy. Hsiaoju Lee, Naresh Damuka, John A Katzenellenbogen, Bhuddhika Liyana Pathirannahel, Jinbin Xu, Robert H Mach, Kiran Kumar Solingapuram Sai*. Initial Biological Evaluations of [18F]KS-7-51 to Image PPAR-? in Tumor Mice Model. 2020 Sep; 17; 1(7):1086.
- Chemistry Select. Kiran Kumar Solingapuram Sai,*Jaya Prabhakaran,Naresh Damuka, Suzanne Craft, Shamyaa A. Rajagopal, Akiva Mintz, John Mann, and Dileep Kumar. Synthesis and Initial In Vivo Evaluations of [11C]WX-132-18B, a Microtubule PET Imaging Agent. 2020 Aug; 18; 5:9623-9625.
- Molecules . Naresh Damuka, Paul W. Czoty, Ashley T. Davis, Michael A. Nader, Susan H. Nader, Suzanne Craft, Shannon L. Macauley, Lindsey K. Galbo, Phillip M. Epperly, Christopher T. Whitlow, April T. Davenport, Thomas J. Martin, James B. Daunais, Akiva Mintz and Kiran Kumar Solingapuram Sai*. PET Imaging of [11C]MPC-6827, a Microtubule-Based Radiotracer in Non-Human Primate Brains. 2020 May; 9; 2289(25):1-7.
- Bioorg Med Chem Lett. J S Dileep Kumar, Jaya Prabhakaran, Naresh Damuka, Justin Wayne Hines, Skylar Norman, Meghana Dodda, J John Mann, Akiva Mintz, Kiran Kumar Solingapuram Sai*. In vivo comparison of N- 11 CH 3 vs O- 11 CH 3 radiolabeled microtubule targeted PET ligands. 2020 Jan; 15; 2(30):126785.