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Milos D. Ikonomovic is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medical research, focusing primarily on medicine with significant attention to subfields such as physiology, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, and molecular biology.

Their research covers a range of topics, including dementia and cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, down syndrome and intellectual disability research, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, medical imaging techniques and applications, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Molecular Neurodegeneration

Among Milos D. Ikonomovic's recent papers are:

  • "Positron Emission Tomography Imaging With [18F]flortaucipir and Postmortem Assessment of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes," 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • "Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease," 2023, Nature Medicine
  • "Brain injury-induced dysfunction of the blood brain barrier as a risk for dementia," 2020, Experimental Neurology
  • "Direct Comparison of the Tau PET Tracers18F-Flortaucipir and18F-MK-6240 in Human Subjects," 2021, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • "Visual assessment of [18F]flutemetamol PET images can detect early amyloid pathology and grade its extent," 2021, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable co-authors including Julia Kofler, Victor L. Villemagne, Ann D. Cohen, Howard Aizenstein, and Dana Tudorascu.

Best Publications

  • Post-mortem Correlates of in Vivo PiB-PET Amyloid Imaging in a Typical Case of Alzheimer's Disease

    Milos D. Ikonomovic;William E. Klunk;Eric E. Abrahamson;Chester A. Mathis

  • Upregulation of choline acetyltransferase activity in hippocampus and frontal cortex of elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment.

    Steven T. Dekosky;Milos D. Ikonomovic;Scot D. Styren;Laurel A Beckett

  • Validating novel tau positron emission tomography tracer [F‐18]‐AV‐1451 (T807) on postmortem brain tissue

    Marta Marquié;Marta Marquié;Marc D. Normandin;Charles R. Vanderburg;Isabel M. Costantino

  • Alzheimer's pathology in human temporal cortex surgically excised after severe brain injury.

    Milos D. Ikonomovic;Kunihiro Uryu;Eric E. Abrahamson;John R. Ciallella

  • Binding of the Positron Emission Tomography Tracer Pittsburgh Compound-B Reflects the Amount of Amyloid-β in Alzheimer's Disease Brain But Not in Transgenic Mouse Brain

    William E. Klunk;Brian J. Lopresti;Milos D. Ikonomovic;Iliya M. Lefterov

  • Amyloid Deposition Begins in the Striatum of Presenilin-1 Mutation Carriers from Two Unrelated Pedigrees

    William E. Klunk;Julie C. Price;Chester A. Mathis;Nicholas D. Tsopelas

  • Traumatic brain injury: football, warfare, and long-term effects.

    Steven T DeKosky;Milos D Ikonomovic;Sam Gandy

  • Positron Emission Tomography Imaging With [18F]flortaucipir and Postmortem Assessment of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes

    Adam S Fleisher;Michael J Pontecorvo;Michael D Devous;Ming Lu

  • Dissecting phenotypic traits linked to human resilience to Alzheimer’s pathology

    Beatriz G. Perez-Nievas;Thor D. Stein;Hwan Ching Tai;Oriol Dols-Icardo

  • The Binding of 2-(4′-Methylaminophenyl)Benzothiazole to Postmortem Brain Homogenates Is Dominated by the Amyloid Component

    William E. Klunk;Yanming Wang;Guo feng Huang;Manik L. Debnath

  • Human cholinergic basal forebrain: chemoanatomy and neurologic dysfunction

    Elliott J. Mufson;Stephen D. Ginsberg;Milos D. Ikonomovic;Steven T. DeKosky

  • Phase 3 Trial of Flutemetamol Labeled With Radioactive Fluorine 18 Imaging and Neuritic Plaque Density

    Craig Curtis;Jose E. Gamez;Upinder Singh;Carl H. Sadowsky

  • Acute and chronic traumatic encephalopathies: pathogenesis and biomarkers

    Steven T. DeKosky;Kaj Blennow;Milos D. Ikonomovic;Sam Gandy

  • Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

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  • Multisite study of the relationships between antemortem [11C]PIB-PET Centiloid values and postmortem measures of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology

    Renaud La Joie;Nagehan Ayakta;Nagehan Ayakta;William W. Seeley;Ewa Borys

  • Mild cognitive impairment: pathology and mechanisms

    Elliott J. Mufson;Lester Binder;Scott E. Counts;Steven T. DeKosky

  • 22R-Hydroxycholesterol and 9-cis-Retinoic Acid Induce ATP-binding Cassette Transporter A1 Expression and Cholesterol Efflux in Brain Cells and Decrease Amyloid β Secretion

    Radosveta P. Koldamova;Iliya M. Lefterov;Milos D. Ikonomovic;John Skoko

  • Absence of Pittsburgh Compound B Detection of Cerebral Amyloid β in a Patient With Clinical, Cognitive, and Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers of Alzheimer Disease: A Case Report

    Nigel J. Cairns;Milos D. Ikonomovic;Tammie Benzinger;Martha Storandt

  • Biomarkers for the Early Detection and Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

    Scott E. Counts;Scott E. Counts;Milos D. Ikonomovic;Natosha Mercado;Irving E. Vega

  • Pathological correlations of [F-18]-AV-1451 imaging in non-alzheimer tauopathies

    Marta Marquié;Marc D. Normandin;Avery C. Meltzer;Michael Siao Tick Chong

  • Association of Increased Cortical Soluble Aβ42 Levels With Diffuse Plaques After Severe Brain Injury in Humans

    Steven T. DeKosky;Eric E. Abrahamson;John R. Ciallella;William R. Paljug

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven T. DeKosky
Steven T. DeKosky University of Florida
Elliott J. Mufson
Elliott J. Mufson Barrow Neurological Institute
Julie C. Price
Julie C. Price Harvard University
Stephen D. Ginsberg
Stephen D. Ginsberg Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
David M. Armstrong
David M. Armstrong National Institutes of Health
Sylvia E. Perez
Sylvia E. Perez Barrow Neurological Institute
Joanne Wuu
Joanne Wuu University of Miami
Scott E. Counts
Scott E. Counts Michigan State University
C. Edward Dixon
C. Edward Dixon University of Pittsburgh
Beth E. Snitz
Beth E. Snitz University of Pittsburgh

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