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Ronald G. Blasberg is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Immunology and Microbiology, with a particular focus on Immunology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers several primary topics, prominently featuring Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism; Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers; Immune cells in cancer; Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment; Cancer Research and Treatments; Immunotherapy and Immune Responses; and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Inna Serganova, Ivan Cohen, Masatomo Maeda, Masahiro Shindo, and Mayuresh Mane.

Publications by Ronald G. Blasberg appear in several scientific venues, with multiple papers in Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts, Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics, Cancers, Cancer Research, and Nature.

Notable recent papers include:

  • CTLA-4 blockade drives loss of Treg stability in glycolysis-low tumours, 2021, Nature
  • Lactate Dehydrogenase A Depletion Alters MyC-CaP Tumor Metabolism, Microenvironment, and CAR T Cell Therapy, 2020, Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics
  • Genetic and Drug Inhibition of LDH-A: Effects on Murine Gliomas, 2022, Cancers
  • Increased tumor glycolysis is associated with decreased immune infiltration across human solid tumors, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • The AQARA Principle: Proposing Standard Requirements for Radionuclide-Based Images in Medical Journals, 2020, Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Best Publications

  • Graphical Evaluation of Blood-to-Brain Transfer Constants from Multiple-Time Uptake Data:

    Clifford S. Patlak;Ronald G. Blasberg;Joseph D. Fenstermacher

  • Graphical Evaluation of Blood-to-Brain Transfer Constants from Multiple-Time Uptake Data. Generalizations:

    Clifford S. Patlak;Ronald G. Blasberg

  • Tumor-reactive CD4+ T cells develop cytotoxic activity and eradicate large established melanoma after transfer into lymphopenic hosts

    Sergio A. Quezada;Tyler R. Simpson;Karl S. Peggs;Taha Merghoub

  • Distinct organ-specific metastatic potential of individual breast cancer cells and primary tumors

    Andy J. Minn;Yibin Kang;Inna Serganova;Gaorav P. Gupta

  • Transport of α-Aminoisobutyric Acid across Brain Capillary and Cellular Membranes

    Ronald G. Blasberg;Joseph D. Fenstermacher;Clifford S. Patlak

  • Breast cancer bone metastasis mediated by the Smad tumor suppressor pathway

    Yibin Kang;Wei He;Shaun Tulley;Gaorav P. Gupta

  • Imaging the expression of transfected genes in vivo.

    Juri G. Tjuvajev;Gunther Stockhammer;Revathi Desai;Hisao Uehara

  • Imaging herpes virus thymidine kinase gene transfer and expression by positron emission tomography.

    Juri G. Tjuvajev;Norbert Avril;Takamitsu Oku;Toshio Sasajima

  • Imaging Transgene Expression with Radionuclide Imaging Technologies

    S. S. Gambhir;H. R. Herschman;Simon R Cherry;J. R. Barrio

  • Intrathecal chemotherapy: brain tissue profiles after ventriculocisternal perfusion.

    R G Blasberg;C Patlak;J D Fenstermacher

  • Noninvasive Imaging of Herpes Virus Thymidine Kinase Gene Transfer and Expression: A Potential Method for Monitoring Clinical Gene Therapy

    Juri G. Tjuvajev;Ronald Finn;Kyoichi Watanabe;Revathi Joshi

  • Residual cerebral activity and behavioural fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain

    Nicholas D. Schiff;Urs Ribary;Diana Rodriguez Moreno;Bradley Beattie

  • Comparison of bolus and infusion methods for receptor quantitation: application to [18F]cyclofoxy and positron emission tomography.

    Richard E. Carson;Michael A. Channing;Ronald G. Blasberg;Bonnie B. Dunn

  • Substrate specificity of steady-state amino acid transport in mouse brain slices

    Ronald Blasberg;Ronald Blasberg;Abel Lajtha;Abel Lajtha

  • Comparison of Radiolabeled Nucleoside Probes (FIAU, FHBG, and FHPG) for PET Imaging of HSV1-tk Gene Expression

    Juri Gelovani Tjuvajev;Mikhail Doubrovin;Timothy Akhurst;Shangde Cai

  • A novel triple-modality reporter gene for whole-body fluorescent, bioluminescent, and nuclear noninvasive imaging

    Vladimir Ponomarev;Michael Doubrovin;Inna Serganova;Jelena Vider

  • Methods for Quantifying the transport of drugs across brain barrier systems.

    Joseph D. Fenstermacher;Ronald G. Blasberg;Clifford S. Patlak

  • Surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering nanostars for high-precision cancer imaging

    Stefan Harmsen;Ruimin Huang;Matthew A. Wall;Matthew A. Wall;Hazem Karabeber

  • Imaging transcriptional regulation of p53-dependent genes with positron emission tomography in vivo

    Michael Doubrovin;Vladimir Ponomarev;Tatiana Beresten;Julius Balatoni

  • CTLA-4 blockade drives loss of T reg stability in glycolysis-low tumours

    Roberta Zappasodi;Inna Serganova;Ivan J. Cohen;Masatomo Maeda

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason A. Koutcher
Jason A. Koutcher Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Steven M. Larson
Steven M. Larson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michel Sadelain
Michel Sadelain Columbia University
Wolfgang A. Weber
Wolfgang A. Weber Technical University of Munich
Yuman Fong
Yuman Fong City Of Hope National Medical Center
Jason S. Lewis
Jason S. Lewis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kenner C. Rice
Kenner C. Rice National Institutes of Health
Taha Merghoub
Taha Merghoub Cornell University
Richard E. Carson
Richard E. Carson Yale University
Howard T. Thaler
Howard T. Thaler Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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