Joseph Blecha, MS

Specialist

Publications

Alanizi AA, Sorlin AM, Parker MFL, López-Álvarez M, Qin H, Lee SH, Blecha J, Rosenberg OS, Engel J, Ohliger MA, Flavell RR, Wilson DM. Bioorthogonal Radiolabeling of Azide-Modified Bacteria Using [18F]FB-sulfo-DBCO. Bioconjug Chem. 2024 Mar 14.
Alexandre M. Sorlin, Marina Lo´pez-A´lvarez, Jacob Biboy, Joe Gray, Sarah J. Rabbitt, Junaid Ur Rahim, Sang Hee Lee, Kondapa Naidu Bobba, Joseph Blecha, Mathew F.L. Parker, Robert R. Flavell, Joanne Engel, Michael Ohliger, Waldemar Vollmer, David M. Wilson. Peptidoglycan-Targeted [18F]3,3,3-Trifluoro-d-alanine Tracer for Imaging Bacterial Infection. JACS Au. 2024 Feb 25.
Hayes TR, Chao CK, Blecha JE, Huynh TL, VanBrocklin HF, Zinn KR, Gerdes JM, Thompson CM. [11C]Paraoxon: Radiosynthesis, Biodistribution and In Vivo Positron Emission Tomography Imaging in Rat. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2024 Jan 17; 388(2):333-346.
Lee SH, Kim JM, López-Álvarez M, Wang C, Sorlin AM, Bobba KN, Pichardo-González PA, Blecha J, Seo Y, Flavell RR, Engel J, Ohliger MA, Wilson DM. Imaging the Bacterial Cell Wall Using N-Acetyl Muramic Acid-Derived Positron Emission Tomography Radiotracers. ACS Sens. 2023 Dec 22; 8(12):4554-4565.
Parker MFL, López-Álvarez M, Alanizi AA, Luu JM, Polvoy I, Sorlin AM, Qin H, Lee S, Rabbitt SJ, Pichardo-González PA, Ordonez AA, Blecha J, Rosenberg OS, Flavell RR, Engel J, Jain SK, Ohliger MA, Wilson DM. Evaluating the Performance of Pathogen-Targeted Positron Emission Tomography Radiotracers in a Rat Model of Vertebral Discitis-Osteomyelitis. J Infect Dis. 2023 10 03; 228(Suppl 4):S281-S290.
Sorlin AM, López-Álvarez M, Rabbitt SJ, Alanizi AA, Shuere R, Bobba KN, Blecha J, Sakhamuri S, Evans MJ, Bayles KW, Flavell RR, Rosenberg OS, Sriram R, Desmet T, Nidetzky B, Engel J, Ohliger MA, Fraser JS, Wilson DM. Chemoenzymatic Syntheses of Fluorine-18-Labeled Disaccharides from [18F] FDG Yield Potent Sensors of Living Bacteria In Vivo. J Am Chem Soc. 2023 08 16; 145(32):17632-17642.
Midha AD, Zhou Y, Queliconi BB, Barrios AM, Haribowo AG, Chew BTL, Fong COY, Blecha JE, VanBrocklin H, Seo Y, Jain IH. Organ-specific fuel rewiring in acute and chronic hypoxia redistributes glucose and fatty acid metabolism. Cell Metab. 2023 03 07; 35(3):504-516.e5.
David Wilson, Anju Anju, Matthew Parker, Niranjan Meher, Joseph Blecha, Oren Rosenberg, Michael Ohliger, Robert Flavell. P-65 Cyclic [68Ga] and [18F]AlF-labeled peptides for specific detection of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 2022 Nov 1; 114:s64-s65.
Shin J, Parker MFL, Zhu I, Alanizi A, Rodriguez CI, Liu R, Watchmaker PB, Kalita M, Blecha J, Luu J, Wright B, Lapi SE, Flavell RR, Okada H, Tlsty TD, Roybal KT, Wilson DM. Antigen-Dependent Inducible T-Cell Reporter System for PET Imaging of Breast Cancer and Glioblastoma. J Nucl Med. 2023 01; 64(1):137-144.
Polvoy I, Seo Y, Parker M, Stewart M, Siddiqua K, Manacsa HS, Ravanfar V, Blecha J, Hope TA, Vanbrocklin H, Flavell RR, Barry J, Hansen E, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Engel J, Rosenberg OS, Wilson DM, Ohliger MA. Imaging joint infections using D-methyl-11C-methionine PET/MRI: initial experience in humans. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022 09; 49(11):3761-3771.
Henry VanBrocklin, Joseph Blecha, Robin Ippisch, Christopher Havel, Gideon St. Helen, Spencer Behr. P-162 Electronic cigarette aerosol deposition of [11C]nicotine in human subjects: radiosynthesis and vaping apparatus development. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 2022 May 1; 108:s137-s138.
Kumar P, Yee C, Blecha JE, Hayes TR, Kilbride BF, Stillson C, Losey AD, Mastria E, Jordan CD, Huynh TL, Moore T, Wilson MW, VanBrocklin HF, Hetts SW. Evaluating Radioactive Analogs of Doxorubicin to Quantify ChemoFilter Binding and Whole-Body Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Drug Biodistribution. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2022 06; 33(6):687-694.
Guglielmetti C, Levi J, Huynh TL, Tiret B, Blecha J, Tang R, VanBrocklin H, Chaumeil MM. Longitudinal Imaging of T Cells and Inflammatory Demyelination in a Preclinical Model of Multiple Sclerosis Using 18F-FAraG PET and MRI. J Nucl Med. 2022 01; 63(1):140-146.
Parker MFL, Blecha J, Rosenberg O, Ohliger M, Flavell RR, Wilson DM. Cyclic 68Ga-Labeled Peptides for Specific Detection of Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2. J Nucl Med. 2021 11; 62(11):1631-1637.
Hayes TR, Chao CK, Blecha JE, Huynh TL, Zinn KR, Thompson CM, Gerdes JM, VanBrocklin HF. Biological Distribution and Metabolic Profiles of Carbon-11 and Fluorine-18 Tracers of VX- and Sarin-Analogs in Sprague-Dawley Rats. Chem Res Toxicol. 2021 01 18; 34(1):63-69.
Kiel D. Neumann, Joseph E. Blecha, Chih-Kai Chao, Tony Huynh, Kurt R. Zinn, Henry F. VanBrocklin, Charles M. Thompson, John M. Gerdes. Dose Formulation, Biodistribution and PET Imaging Studies of a First-In-Class Fluorine-18 Organophosphorus Cholinesterase Inhibitor Tracer in Rat. Current Chemical Biology. 2020 Oct 5; 14.
Huang Y, Zhao N, Wang YH, Truillet C, Wei J, Parker MFL, Blecha JE, Drake CR, VanBrocklin HF, Garrido-Ruiz D, Jacobson MP, Aggarwal R, Behr SC, Flavell RR, Wilson DM, Seo Y, Evans MJ. The Synthesis and Structural Requirements for Measuring Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression In Vivo with (±)-11C-YJH08 PET. J Nucl Med. 2021 05 10; 62(5):723-731.
Hayes TR, Blecha JE, Chao CK, Huynh TL, VanBrocklin HF, Zinn KR, Taylor PW, Gerdes JM, Thompson CM. Positron emission tomography evaluation of oxime countermeasures in live rats using the tracer O-(2-[18 F]fluoroethyl)-O-(p-nitrophenyl)methylphosphonate [18 F]-VXS. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2020 11; 1479(1):180-195.
Huang Y, Zhao N, Wang YH, Truillet C, Wei J, Blecha JE, VanBrocklin HF, Seo Y, Sayeed M, Feldman BJ, Aggarwal R, Behr SC, Shao H, Wilson DM, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Gestwicki JE, Evans MJ. A Novel Radioligand Reveals Tissue Specific Pharmacological Modulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression with Positron Emission Tomography. ACS Chem Biol. 2020 06 19; 15(6):1381-1391.
Kalita M, Parker MFL, Luu JM, Stewart MN, Blecha JE, VanBrocklin HF, Evans MJ, Flavell RR, Rosenberg OS, Ohliger MA, Wilson DM. Arabinofuranose-derived positron-emission tomography radiotracers for detection of pathogenic microorganisms. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm. 2020 05 15; 63(5):231-239.
Beckford-Vera DR, Gonzalez-Junca A, Janneck JS, Huynh TL, Blecha JE, Seo Y, Li X, VanBrocklin HF, Franc BL. PET/CT Imaging of Human TNFα Using [89Zr]Certolizumab Pegol in a Transgenic Preclinical Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Mol Imaging Biol. 2020 02; 22(1):105-114.
Stewart MN, Parker MFL, Jivan S, Luu JM, Huynh TL, Schulte B, Seo Y, Blecha JE, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Flavell RR, VanBrocklin HF, Ohliger MA, Rosenberg O, Wilson DM. High Enantiomeric Excess In-Loop Synthesis of d-[methyl-11C]Methionine for Use as a Diagnostic Positron Emission Tomography Radiotracer in Bacterial Infection. ACS Infect Dis. 2020 01 10; 6(1):43-49.
Wang S, Blaha C, Santos R, Huynh T, Hayes TR, Beckford-Vera DR, Blecha JE, Hong AS, Fogarty M, Hope TA, Raleigh DR, Wilson DM, Evans MJ, VanBrocklin HF, Ozawa T, Flavell RR. Synthesis and Initial Biological Evaluation of Boron-Containing Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Ligands for Treatment of Prostate Cancer Using Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. Mol Pharm. 2019 09 03; 16(9):3831-3841.
V. Beckford, C. Fu, J. Janneck, T. Huynh, J. Blecha, X. Li, B. Franc, H. Vanbrocklin. OP#41 Immuno-PET imaging of human tumor necrosis factor alpha in a transgenic mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 2019 Jul 1; 72:s16-s17.
Hayes TR, Blecha JE, Thompson CM, Gerdes JM, VanBrocklin HF. Divergent synthesis of organophosphate [11C]VX- and [11C]Sarin-surrogates from a common set of starting materials. Appl Radiat Isot. 2019 Sep; 151:182-186.
Levi J, Lam T, Goth SR, Yaghoubi S, Bates J, Ren G, Jivan S, Huynh TL, Blecha JE, Khattri R, Schmidt KF, Jennings D, VanBrocklin H. Imaging of Activated T Cells as an Early Predictor of Immune Response to Anti-PD-1 Therapy. Cancer Res. 2019 07 01; 79(13):3455-3465.
Behr SC, Aggarwal R, VanBrocklin HF, Flavell RR, Gao K, Small EJ, Blecha J, Jivan S, Hope TA, Simko JP, Kurhanewicz J, Noworolski SM, Korn NJ, De Los Santos R, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, Nguyen HG, Greene KL, Langton-Webster B, Berkman CE, Seo Y. Phase I Study of CTT1057, an 18F-Labeled Imaging Agent with Phosphoramidate Core Targeting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen in Prostate Cancer. J Nucl Med. 2019 07; 60(7):910-916.
Hayes TR, Thompson CM, Blecha JE, Gerdes JM, VanBrocklin HF. Radiosynthesis of O-(1-[18 F]fluoropropan-2-yl)-O-(4-nitrophenyl)methylphosphonate: A novel PET tracer surrogate of sarin. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm. 2018 12; 61(14):1089-1094.
Neumann KD, Blecha JE, Hayes TR, Huynh T, Chao CK, Guilloteau N, Zinn KR, VanBrocklin HF, Thompson CM, Gerdes JM. Radiosynthesis, ex Vivo Biodistribution, and in Vivo Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Evaluations of [11C]2-Pyridinealdoxime Methiodide ([11C]2-PAM): A First-In-Class Antidote Tracer for Organophosphate Intoxication. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2018 12 19; 9(12):3007-3014.
Taglang C, Korenchan DE, von Morze C, Yu J, Najac C, Wang S, Blecha JE, Subramaniam S, Bok R, VanBrocklin HF, Vigneron DB, Ronen SM, Sriram R, Kurhanewicz J, Wilson DM, Flavell RR. Late-stage deuteration of 13C-enriched substrates for T1 prolongation in hyperpolarized 13C MRI. Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 May 17; 54(41):5233-5236.
Mutch CA, Ordonez AA, Qin H, Parker M, Bambarger LE, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Blecha J, Carroll V, Taglang C, Flavell R, Sriram R, VanBrocklin H, Rosenberg O, Ohliger MA, Jain SK, Neumann KD, Wilson DM. [11C]Para-Aminobenzoic Acid: A Positron Emission Tomography Tracer Targeting Bacteria-Specific Metabolism. ACS Infect Dis. 2018 07 13; 4(7):1067-1072.
Neumann KD, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Mutch CA, Flavell RR, Blecha JE, Kwak T, Sriram R, VanBrocklin HF, Rosenberg OS, Ohliger MA, Wilson DM. Imaging Active Infection in vivo Using D-Amino Acid Derived PET Radiotracers. Sci Rep. 2017 08 11; 7(1):7903.
Rahul Raj Aggarwal, Spencer Behr, Youngho Seo, Kenneth Gao, Vahid Rahanfar, Jim Slater, Joseph Blecha, Beatrice Langton-Webster, Clifford Berkman, Henry Vanbrocklin. First-in-human phase 1 PET study of CTT1057, a novel 18 F-labeled imaging agent targeting prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) in prostate cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2017 May 20; 35(15_suppl):e16562-e16562.
Neumann KD, Thompson CM, Blecha JE, Gerdes JM, VanBrocklin HF. An improved radiosynthesis of O-(2-[18 F]fluoroethyl)-O-(p-nitrophenyl)methylphosphonate: A first-in-class cholinesterase PET tracer. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm. 2017 06 15; 60(7):337-342.
Blecha JE, Henderson BD, Hockley BG, VanBrocklin HF, Zubieta JK, DaSilva AF, Kilbourn MR, Koeppe RA, Scott PJH, Shao X. An updated synthesis of [11 C]carfentanil for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the μ-opioid receptor. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm. 2017 06 30; 60(8):375-380.
Franc BL, Goth S, MacKenzie J, Li X, Blecha J, Lam T, Jivan S, Hawkins RA, VanBrocklin H. In Vivo PET Imaging of the Activated Immune Environment in a Small Animal Model of Inflammatory Arthritis. Mol Imaging. 2017 01 01; 16:1536012117712638.
Dannoon S, Ganguly T, Cahaya H, Geruntho JJ, Galliher MS, Beyer SK, Choy CJ, Hopkins MR, Regan M, Blecha JE, Skultetyova L, Drake CR, Jivan S, Barinka C, Jones EF, Berkman CE, VanBrocklin HF. Structure-Activity Relationship of (18)F-Labeled Phosphoramidate Peptidomimetic Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)-Targeted Inhibitor Analogues for PET Imaging of Prostate Cancer. J Med Chem. 2016 06 23; 59(12):5684-94.
Li L, Che L, Wang C, Blecha JE, Li X, VanBrocklin HF, Calvisi DF, Puchowicz M, Chen X, Seo Y. [(11)C]acetate PET Imaging is not Always Associated with Increased Lipogenesis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mice. Mol Imaging Biol. 2016 06; 18(3):360-7.
Schankin CJ, Maniyar FH, Seo Y, Kori S, Eller M, Chou DE, Blecha J, Murphy ST, Hawkins RA, Sprenger T, VanBrocklin HF, Goadsby PJ. Ictal lack of binding to brain parenchyma suggests integrity of the blood-brain barrier for 11C-dihydroergotamine during glyceryl trinitrate-induced migraine. Brain. 2016 07; 139(Pt 7):1994-2001.
Flavell RR, Truillet C, Regan MK, Ganguly T, Blecha JE, Kurhanewicz J, VanBrocklin HF, Keshari KR, Chang CJ, Evans MJ, Wilson DM. Caged [(18)F]FDG Glycosylamines for Imaging Acidic Tumor Microenvironments Using Positron Emission Tomography. Bioconjug Chem. 2016 Jan 20; 27(1):170-8.
Laura Serwer, Natacha Le Moan, Melanie Regan, Joseph Blecha, Andrew Davis, Kevin Tanaka, Tim Keating, Jamie Romero, Philberta Leung, Tina Davis, Catherine Bedard, Sarah Ng, Feng Yan, Raquel Santos, Tomoko Ozawa, Nicholas Butowski, Stephen Cary, Theodore Nicolaides, Youngho Seo, Jonathan Winger, Henry VanBrocklin, Ana Krtolica. NIMG-45REAL-TIME PET IMAGING DEMONSTRATES TUMOR ACCUMULATION AND OXYGENATION BY OMX-4.80P, AN OXYGEN CARRIER ENGINEERED FOR THE TREATMENT OF GLIOBLASTOMA. Neuro-Oncology. 2015 Nov 1; 17(suppl_5):v164-v164.
Flavell RR, von Morze C, Blecha JE, Korenchan DE, Van Criekinge M, Sriram R, Gordon JW, Chen HY, Subramaniam S, Bok RA, Wang ZJ, Vigneron DB, Larson PE, Kurhanewicz J, Wilson DM. Application of Good's buffers to pH imaging using hyperpolarized (13)C MRI. Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Sep 25; 51(74):14119-22.
Ganguly T, Dannoon S, Hopkins MR, Murphy S, Cahaya H, Blecha JE, Jivan S, Drake CR, Barinka C, Jones EF, VanBrocklin HF, Berkman CE. A high-affinity [(18)F]-labeled phosphoramidate peptidomimetic PSMA-targeted inhibitor for PET imaging of prostate cancer. Nucl Med Biol. 2015 Oct; 42(10):780-7.
C Schankin, F Maniyar, Y Seo, S Kori, M Eller, J Blecha, S Murphy, T Sprenger, H VanBrocklin, P Goadsby. EHMTI-0125. Studying the permeability of the blood-brain barrier during migraine attacks using [11C]-dihydroergotamine. The Journal of Headache and Pain. 2014 Dec 1; 15(Suppl 1):f22.
Carroll V, Michel BW, Blecha J, VanBrocklin H, Keshari K, Wilson D, Chang CJ. A boronate-caged [¹⁸F]FLT probe for hydrogen peroxide detection using positron emission tomography. J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Oct 22; 136(42):14742-5.
Christoph Schankin, Farooq Maniyar, Youngho Seo, Shashidar Kori, Michael Eller, Joseph Blecha, Stephanie Murphy, Till Sprenger, Henry VanBrocklin, Peter Goadsby. Ictal Lack of Binding of [ 11 C]-Dihydroergotamine to Brain Parenchyma Suggests That the Blood-Brain Barrier Remains Intact during Migraine Attacks (S32.002). Neurology. 2014 Apr 8; 82(10_supplement).
Blecha JE, Anderson MO, Chow JM, Guevarra CC, Pender C, Penaranda C, Zavodovskaya M, Youngren JF, Berkman CE. Inhibition of IGF-1R and lipoxygenase by nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) analogs. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2007 Jul 15; 17(14):4026-9.
Mallari JP, Choy CJ, Hu Y, Martinez AR, Hosaka M, Toriyabe Y, Maung J, Blecha JE, Pavkovic SF, Berkman CE. Stereoselective inhibition of glutamate carboxypeptidase by organophosphorus derivatives of glutamic acid. Bioorg Med Chem. 2004 Nov 15; 12(22):6011-20.