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  • Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD

Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD

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Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD

Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Radiology

Research Interests

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Cancer Imaging
  • ksolinga@wakehealth.edu
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Education
BSc, Osmania University, Hyderabad - India, 2001
MSc, Osmania University, Hyderabad - India, 2003
PhD, Northern Illinois University, 2009
Positions
Associate 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

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  • Associations among vascular risk factors, neuroimaging biomarkers, and cognition: Preliminary analyses from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Lockhart SN, Schaich CL, Craft S, Sachs BC, Rapp SR, Jung Y, Whitlow CT, Solingapuram Sai KK, Cleveland M, Williams BJ, Burke GL, Bertoni A, Hayden KM, Hughes TM. Alzheimers Dement. 2021 Sep;
  • Selective Imaging of Lung Macrophages Using [11C]PBR28-Based Positron Emission Tomography. Chen DL, Agapov E, Wu K, Engle JT, Solingapuram Sai KK, Arentson E, Spayd KJ, Moreland KT, Toth K, Byers DE, Pierce RA, Atkinson JJ, Laforest R, Gelman AE, Holtzman MJ. Mol Imaging Biol. 2021 Jun;
  • Effect of ethanol and cocaine on [11C]MPC-6827 uptake in SH-SY5Y cells. Damuka N, Orr M, Czoty PW, Weiner JL, Martin TJ, Nader MA, Bansode AH, Liyana Pathirannahel BS, Mintz A, Macauley SL, Craft S, Solingapuram Sai KK. Mol Biol Rep. 2021 Apr; 48(4):3871-3876.
  • 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.
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Research Interests

  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Cancer Imaging
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Radiopharmaceuticals

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