{"id":8191,"date":"2025-08-25T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/?post_type=ud_entry&p=8191"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:14:34","slug":"kingsley-asiedu-md","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/people\/kingsley-asiedu-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingsley Asiedu, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publications<\/h3>\n

Koyasu, S., Minor, H. A., Asiedu, K. O., Choyke, P. L., & Sato, N. (2025). Zirconium-89-Oxine Cell Tracking by PET Reveals Preferential Monocyte Recruitment to Cancer and Inflammation over Macrophages. Pharmaceuticals<\/em>,18<\/em>(6), 897. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ph18060897<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nyong, E., Yutaka Kurebayashi, Asiedu, K. O., Choyke, P. L., & Sato, N. (2025). Intracellular Protein Binding of Zr-89 Oxine Cell Labeling for PET Cell Tracking Studies. Pharmaceutics<\/em>, 17<\/em>(4), 518\u2013518. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/pharmaceutics17040518<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hazell, S. Z., Hu, C., Alcorn, S. R., Asiedu, K. O., Pulido, G., Frassica, D. A., Meyer, C., Levin, A. S., Morris, C. D., & Terezakis, S. A. (2020). Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Compared With Neoadjuvant Radiation Alone in the Management of High-Grade Soft Tissue Extremity Sarcomas. Advances in Radiation Oncology<\/em>, 5<\/em>(2), 231\u2013237. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.adro.2019.08.015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asiedu, K. O., Munira Ferdousi, Ton, P. T., Adler, S. S., Choyke, P. L., & Sato, N. (2018). Bone marrow cell homing to sites of acute tibial fracture: 89Zr-oxine cell labeling with positron emission tomographic imaging in a mouse model. EJNMMI Research<\/em>, 8<\/em>(1), 109\u2013109. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13550-018-0463-8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asiedu, K. O., Sho Koyasu, Szajek, L. P., Choyke, P. L., & Sato, N. (2016). Bone Marrow Cell Trafficking Analyzed by 89Zr-oxine Positron Emission Tomography in a Murine Transplantation Model. Clinical Cancer Research<\/em>, 23<\/em>(11), 2759\u20132768. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1158\/1078-0432.ccr-16-1561<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sato, N., Wu, H., Asiedu, K. O., Szajek, L. P., Griffiths, G. L., & Choyke, P. L. (2015). 89<\/sup>Zr-Oxine Complex PET Cell Imaging in Monitoring Cell-based Therapies. Radiology<\/em>, 275<\/em>(2), 490\u2013500. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1148\/radiol.15142849<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Additional Research Experience\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n

National Institutes of Health: Bethesda, MD 6\/2013-8\/2015
\n<\/span>Molecular Imaging Program -National Cancer Institute
\n<\/span>Postbaccalaureate Research Fellow\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Evaluated and optimized the use of PET and SPECT radionuclide agents for cell labeling and in vivo cell <\/i>imaging using a MicroPET and MicroSPECT\/CT in murine models.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The underlying rationale was to apply knowledge gained in this endeavor to improve cell-based cancer immunotherapy.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    National Institutes of Health: Bethesda, MD 6\/2012-8\/2012
    \n<\/span>Section on Genetic Disorders and Metabolism-NICHD
    \n<\/span>Summer Research Intern\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • The lab focused on characterizing the isozymes known as uridine-diphosphate glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs), which are found primarily in steroidogenic tissues and act in the excretion of lipophilic compounds, such as steroid hormones.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • My project was to determine the impact that a prostate-specific UGT had on prostate tumorigenesis through its known role in removing dihydrotestosterone and whether it also interacted with the tumor suppressor protein, NKX3.1.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8192,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[182,183,218],"class_list":["post-8191","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-all","ud_division-all-faculty","ud_division-emergency-radiology","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Asiedu","ud_first_name":"Kingsley","ud_gallery_summary":"","ud_telephone":false,"ud_email":"","ud_positions":[{"ud_title":"Assistant Professor"}],"ud_options":[],"ud_sort_order":""},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2025\/08\/ERI_AsieduKingsley_web.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2025\/08\/ERI_AsieduKingsley_web.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2025\/08\/ERI_AsieduKingsley_web.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2025\/08\/ERI_AsieduKingsley_web.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2025\/08\/ERI_AsieduKingsley_web-150x150.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ud_entry"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ud_division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_division?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}