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Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD
Kiran K. Solingapuram Sai, PhD
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
Departments and Affiliations
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)
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Publications
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;
Radiation-induced brain injury in non-human primates: A dual tracer PET study with [11C]MPC-6827 and [11C]PiB.
N Damuka, GW Schaaf, M Miller, C Bradley, B Bhoopal, I Krizan, KK Gollapelli, CT Whitlow, JM Cline, KK Solingapuram Sai*. NeuroImage. 2025 Mar; 4; 1(5):100245.
[11C]MK-6884 PET imaging reveals lower M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor availability following cocaine self-administration in male rats.
Gollapelli KK, Krizan I, Bhoopal B, Damuka N, Moriarty C, Miller M, Sai KKS, Gould RW. Pharmacol Rep. 2025 Jan;
Utilizing Quantitative Analysis of CSF Volume from Clinical T1-Weighted MRI to Predict Thrombectomy Outcomes.
Kawas MI, Shamulzai A, Atcheson KM, Horn AC, Ma R, Kittel C, Curry B, Lipford M, Kim J, Solingapuram Sai KK, Wolfe SQ, Whitlow CT. J Neuroimaging. 2025; 35(1):e70013.
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