Hossein Nejadnik, MD, PhD

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Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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Department: Radiology

Contact information
Department of Radiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Stret, One Silverstein
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Education:
MD
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2005.
PhD (Tissue Engineering)
National University of Singapore, 2013.
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Selected Publications

Nejadnik H, Jung KO, Theruvath AJ, Kiru L, Liu A, Wu W, Sulchek T, Pratx G, Daldrup-Link HE: Instant labeling of therapeutic cells for multimodality imaging. Theranostics 10(13): 6024-6034, May 2020 Notes: doi: 10.7150/thno.39554.

Jung KO, Theruvath AJ, Nejadnik H, Liu A, Xing L, Sulchek T, Daldrup-Link HE, Pratx G: Mechanoporation enables rapid and efficient radiolabeling of stem cells for PET imaging. Sci Rep 12(1): 2955, Feb 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-06938-6.

Kiru L, Zlitni A, Tousley AM, Dalton GN, Wu W, Lafortune F, Liu A, Cunanan KM, Nejadnik H, Sulchek T, Moseley ME, Majzner RG, Daldrup-Link HE: In vivo imaging of nanoparticle-labeled CAR T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119(6): e2102363119, Feb 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102363119.

Theruvath AJ, Aghighi M, Iv M, Nejadnik H, Lavezo J, Pisani LJ, Daldrup-Link HE: Brain iron deposition after Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI: A study of Porcine Brains. Nanotheranostics 4(4): 195-200, Jun 2020 Notes: doi: 10.7150/ntno.46356.

Nejadnik H, Theruvath A, Lenkov O, Li K, Kuntz L, Wolterman C, Yerneni K, Tuebel J, Burgkart R, Felt S, Daldrup-Link HE: Tracking Stem Cell Implants in Cartilage Defects of Minipigs by Using Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI. Radiology 292(1): 129–137, Jul 2019 Notes: DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2019182176.

Mohanty S, Yerneni K, Theruvath JL, Graef CM, Nejadnik H, Lenkov O, Pisani L, Rosenberg J, Mitra S, Cordero AS, Cheshier S, Daldrup-Link HE: Nanoparticle enhanced MRI can monitor macrophage response to CD47 mAb immunotherapy in osteosarcoma. Cell Death Dis 10(2): 36, Jan 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1038/s41419-018-1285-3.

Li K, Chan CT, Nejadnik H, Lenkov OD, Wolterman C, Paulmurugan R, Yang H, Gambhir SS, Daldrup-Link HE: Ferumoxytol-based Dual-modality Imaging Probe for Detection of Stem Cell Transplant Rejection. Nanotheranostics. Nanotheranostics 2(4): 306-319, Jun 2018 Notes: doi: 10.7150/ntno.26389.

Nejadnik H, Taghavi-Garmestani SM, Madsen SJ, Li K, Zanganeh S, Yang P, Mahmoudi M, Daldrup-Link HE: The Protein Corona around Nanoparticles Facilitates Stem Cell Labeling for Clinical MR Imaging. Radiology 286(3): 938-947, Mar 2018 Notes: doi: 10.1148/radiol.2017170130.

Nejadnik H, Pandit P, Lenkov O, Pourmehdi Lahiji A, Yerneni K, Daldrup-Link HE: Ferumoxytol can be used for quantitative Magnetic Particle Imaging of Transplanted Stem Cells. Molecular Imaging in Medicine. 21(3): 465-472, Jun 2019.

Nejadnik H*, Theruvath A*, Muehe A*, Gassert F, Luna-Fineman S, Goodman S, Daldrup-Link HE: Tracking Cell Transplants in Osteonecrosis of Leukemia Patients. Clin Cancer Res 24(24): 6223–6229, Dec 2018 Notes: doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-1687.

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