RobertRichardFlavellMDPhD

Nuclear Medicine • New York, NY

Fellow, Nuclear Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

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Office
505 Parnassus Ave
Box 0628
New York, NY 94143
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Education & Training

University of California (San Francisco)Fellowship, Nuclear Medicine, 2016
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 2011 - 2015
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 2010 - 2011
Weill Cornell MedicineClass of 2010
Rockefeller UniversityPhD, Chemical Biology, 2004 - 2009

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2011 - 2025
American Board of Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Medicine
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology

Clinical Trials

[18F]FAraG PET Imaging for Analysis of Biodistribution in Cancer Patients Expected to Undergo Immunotherapy and/or Radiation Therapy Start of enrollment: 2017 May 01
Recruiting
Phase 1
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Peptidoglycan-Targeted [F]3,3,3-Trifluoro-d-alanine Tracer for Imaging Bacterial Infection.
Alexandre M Sorlin, Marina López-Álvarez, Jacob Biboy, Joe Gray, Sarah J Rabbitt, Junaid Ur Rahim, Sang Hee Lee, Kondapa Naidu Bobba, Joseph Blecha, Mathew F L Parker,...> ;JACS Au. 2024 Mar 25
Bioorthogonal Radiolabeling of Azide-Modified Bacteria Using [F]FB-sulfo-DBCO.
Aryn A Alanizi, Alexandre M Sorlin, Matthew F L Parker, Marina López-Álvarez, Hecong Qin, Sang Hee Lee, Joseph Blecha, Oren S Rosenberg, Joanne Engel, Michael A Ohlige...> ;Bioconjugate Chemistry. 2024 Mar 14
F-FDG Dedicated Breast PET Complementary to Breast MRI for Evaluating Early Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.
Devan Diwanji, Natsuko Onishi, Deep K Hathi, Courtney Lawhn-Heath, John Kornak, Wen Li, Ruby Guo, Julissa Molina-Vega, Youngho Seo, Robert R Flavell, Diane Heditsian, ...> ;Radiology. Imaging Cancer. 2024 Mar 1
1 citations
CD46-Targeted Theranostics for PET and 225Ac-Radiopharmaceutical Therapy of Multiple Myeloma.
Wadhwa, A., Wang, S., Patiño-Escobar, B., Bidkar, A., Bobba, K., Chan, E., Meher, N., Bidlingmaier, S., Su, Y., Dhrona, S., Geng, H., Sarin, V., VanBrocklin, H., Wilso...> ;Clinical Cancer Research. 2024 Mar 1
Development of CD46 targeted alpha theranostics in prostate cancer usingCe/Ac-Macropa-PEG-YS5.
Bobba, K., Bidkar, A., Wadhwa, A., Meher, N., Drona, S., Sorlin, A., Bidlingmaier, S., Zhang, L., Wilson, D., Chan, E., Greenland, N., Aggarwal, R., VanBrocklin, H., H...> ;Theranostics. 2024 Jan 1
1 citations
Imaging the Bacterial Cell Wall Using-Acetyl Muramic Acid-Derived Positron Emission Tomography Radiotracers.
Sang Hee Lee, Jung Min Kim, Marina López-Álvarez, Chao Wang, Alexandre M Sorlin, Kondapa Naidu Bobba, Priamo A Pichardo-González, Joseph Blecha, Youngho Seo, Robert R ...> ;ACS Sensors. 2023 Dec 22
1 citations
Clinically Translatable HyperpolarizedC Bicarbonate pH Imaging Method for Use in Prostate Cancer.
Changhua Mu, Xiaoxi Liu, Yaewon Kim, Andrew Riselli, David E Korenchan, Robert A Bok, Romelyn Delos Santos, Renuka Sriram, Hecong Qin, Hao Nguyen, Jeremy W Gordon, Jam...> ;ACS Sensors. 2023 Nov 24
1 citations
Evaluating the Performance of Pathogen-Targeted Positron Emission Tomography Radiotracers in a Rat Model of Vertebral Discitis-Osteomyelitis.
Matthew F L Parker, Marina López-Álvarez, Aryn A Alanizi, Justin M Luu, Ilona Polvoy, Alexandre M Sorlin, Hecong Qin, Sanghee Lee, Sarah J Rabbitt, Priamo A Pichardo-G...> ;The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2023 Oct 3
Coded aperture and Compton imaging for the development ofAc-based radiopharmaceuticals.
Emily Frame, Kondapa Bobba, Donald Gunter, Lucian Mihailescu, Anil Bidkar, Robert Flavell, Kai Vetter> ;Medical Physics. 2023 Oct 1
5 citations
Chemoenzymatic Syntheses of Fluorine-18-Labeled Disaccharides from [F] FDG Yield Potent Sensors of Living Bacteria.
Alexandre M Sorlin, Marina López-Álvarez, Sarah J Rabbitt, Aryn A Alanizi, Rebecca Shuere, Kondapa Naidu Bobba, Joseph Blecha, Sasank Sakhamuri, Michael J Evans, Kenne...> ;Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023 Aug 16
9 citations
Multimodal Molecular Imaging Reveals Tissue-Based T Cell Activation and Viral RNA Persistence for Up to 2 Years Following COVID-19.
Michael J Peluso, Dylan Ryder, Robert Flavell, Yingbing Wang, Jelena Levi, Brian H LaFranchi, Tyler-Marie Deveau, Amanda M Buck, Sadie E Munter, Kofi A Asare, Maya Asl...> ;Medrxiv. 2023 Jul 31
5 citations
Evaluation ofCe/La as a PET Imaging Theranostic Pair forAc α-Radiotherapeutics.
Kondapa Naidu Bobba, Anil P Bidkar, Niranjan Meher, Cyril Fong, Anju Wadhwa, Suchi Dhrona, Alex Sorlin, Scott Bidlingmaier, Becka Shuere, Jiang He, David M Wilson, Bin...> ;Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023 Jul 1
7 citations
Treatment of Prostate Cancer with CD46-targeted 225Ac Alpha Particle Radioimmunotherapy.
Anil P Bidkar, Sinan Wang, Kondapa Naidu Bobba, Emily Chan, Scott Bidlingmaier, Emily A Egusa, Robin Peter, Umama Ali, Niranjan Meher, Anju Wadhwa, Suchi Dhrona, Chand...> ;Clinical Cancer Research. 2023 May 15
8 citations
CD46 targetedPb alpha particle radioimmunotherapy for prostate cancer treatment.
Jun Li, Tao Huang, Jun Hua, Qiong Wang, Yang Su, Ping Chen, Scott Bidlingmaier, Allan Li, Zhongqiu Xie, Anil P Bidkar, Sui Shen, Weibin Shi, Youngho Seo, Robert R Flav...> ;Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 2023 Mar 11
4 citations
PSMA-Targeted Nanotheranostics for Imaging and Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer.
Niranjan Meher, Henry F VanBrocklin, David M Wilson, Robert R Flavell> ;Pharmaceuticals. 2023 Feb 17
5 citations
Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Targeted Deep Tumor Penetration of Polymer Nanocarriers.
Niranjan Meher, Gary W Ashley, Anil P Bidkar, Suchi Dhrona, Cyril Fong, Shaun D Fontaine, Denis R Beckford Vera, David M Wilson, Youngho Seo, Daniel V Santi, Henry F V...> ;ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2022 Nov 16
12 citations
Development of specialized magnetic resonance acquisition techniques for human hyperpolarized [C,N]urea + [1-C]pyruvate simultaneous perfusion and metabolic imaging.
Xiaoxi Liu, Shuyu Tang, Changhua Mu, Hecong Qin, Di Cui, Ying-Chieh Lai, Andrew M Riselli, Romelyn Delos Santos, Lucas Carvajal, Daniel Gebrezgiabhier, Robert A Bok, H...> ;Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2022 Sep 1
14 citations
Imaging joint infections using D-methyl-C-methionine PET/MRI: initial experience in humans.
Ilona Polvoy, Youngho Seo, Matthew Parker, Megan Stewart, Khadija Siddiqua, Harrison S Manacsa, Vahid Ravanfar, Joseph Blecha, Thomas A Hope, Henry Vanbrocklin, Robert...> ;European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2022 Sep 1
Lu-PSMA Therapy.
Ephraim E Parent, Bital Savir-Baruch, Isis W Gayed, Frankis Almaguel, Bennett B Chin, Austin R Pantel, Evan Armstrong, Amanda Morley, Robin C Ippisch, Robert R Flavell> ;Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. 2022 Sep 1
4 citations
Antigen-Dependent Inducible T-Cell Reporter System for PET Imaging of Breast Cancer and Glioblastoma.
Jaehoon Shin, Matthew F L Parker, Iowis Zhu, Aryn Alanizi, Carlos I Rodriguez, Raymond Liu, Payal B Watchmaker, Mausam Kalita, Joseph Blecha, Justin Luu, Brian Wright,...> ;Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023 Jan 1
5 citations
Non-Iodine-Avid Disease Is Highly Prevalent in Distant Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer With Papillary Histology.
Myat Han Soe, Janet M Chiang, Robert R Flavell, Elham Khanafshar, Laura Mendoza, Hyunseok Kang, Chienying Liu> ;The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2022 Jul 14
16 citations
First-in-human immunoPET imaging of HIV-1 infection usingZr-labeled VRC01 broadly neutralizing antibody.
Beckford-Vera, D., Flavell, R., Seo, Y., Martinez-Ortiz, E., Aslam, M., Thanh, C., Fehrman, E., Pardons, M., Kumar, S., Deitchman, A., Ravanfar, V., Schulte, B., Wu, I...> ;Nature Communications. 2022 Mar 9
17 citations
Dosimetry in radionuclide therapy: the clinical role of measuring radiation dose.
Courtney Lawhn-Heath, Thomas A Hope, Juana Martinez, Edward K Fung, Jaehoon Shin, Youngho Seo, Robert R Flavell> ;The Lancet. Oncology. 2022 Feb 1
9 citations
Synthesis and Preliminary Biological Assessment of Carborane-Loaded Theranostic Nanoparticles to Target Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen.
Niranjan Meher, Kyounghee Seo, Sinan Wang, Anil Parsram Bidkar, Miko Fogarty, Suchi Dhrona, Xiao Huang, Ryan Tang, Charles Blaha, Michael J. Evans, David R. Raleigh, Y...> ;ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2021 Nov 9
2 citations
Prostate cancer research in the 21st century; report from the 2021 Coffey-Holden prostate cancer academy meeting.
Andrea K. Miyahira, Jelani C. Zarif, Catherine C. Coombs, Robert R. Flavell, Joshua W. Russo, Samir Zaidi, Di Zhao, Shuang G. Zhao, Kenneth J. Pienta, Howard R. Soule> ;The Prostate. 2021 Nov 3
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Journal Articles

First-in-Human Phase I Study of CTT1057, a Novel 18F Labeled Imaging Agent with Phosphoramidate Core Targeting Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen in Prostate Cancer
Spencer C Behr, Hao G Nguyen, Thomas A Hope, Kirsten L Greene, Matthew R Cooperberg, Robert R Flavell, Eric J Small, Peter R Carroll, Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Press Mentions

First-of-Its-Kind Study Demonstrates Clinical Impact of Amyloid PET ImagingApril 3rd, 2019
Conference Convenes Experts in the Field of Nuclear Medicine to Advance Prostate Cancer CareJanuary 26th, 2024

Grant Support

Mitzi and William Blahd, MD Pilot Research GrantEducation and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging2015–2016
Research fellow grantRadiological Society of North America2015–2016
T32NIH2014–2015