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Discovery and characterization of UCB-1A: the first PET radioligand for imaging synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2C
Sangram Nag, Vasco C. Sousa, Anton Forsberg Morén, Miklós Tóth, Yasir Khani Meynaq, Elena Pedergnana, Rongfeng Zou, Anne Valade, Celine Vermeiren, Philippe Motte, Joël Mercier, Xiaoqun Zhang, Per Svenningsson, Hans Ågren, Christer Halldin, Andrea Varrone
bioRxiv, (preprint), doi: 10.64898/2026.03.06.710176

Imaging Synaptic Vesicle Protein SV2C with ¹⁸F-UCB-F: An In Vitro Autoradiography and In Vivo NHP PET Study
Sangram Nag, Vasco C Sousa, Rongfeng Zou, Anton Forsberg Morén, P. Datta, Yasir Khani Meynaq, Anne Valade, Celine Vermeiren, Philippe Motte, Joël Mercier, Hans Ågren, Christer Halldin, Andrea Varrone
ACS Chemical Neuroscience, (in press), doi: 10.64898/2026.03.08.710088

In silico evaluation of the effects of temperature on the affinity of the SV2C ligand UCB-1A to SV2 isoforms
Rongfeng Zou, Sangram Nag, Vasco C Sousa, Anton Forsberg Morén, Miklós Tóth, Yasir Khani Meynaq, Elena Pedergnana, Anne Valade, Celine Vermeiren, Philippe Motte, Joël Mercier, Xiaoqun Zhang, Per Svenningsson, Christer Halldin, Andrea Varrone, Hans Ågren
bioRxiv, (preprint), doi: 10.64898/2026.03.19.711868

Subtype-selective positron emission tomography imaging of poly ADP-ribose polymerase-1 binding in non-human primates, healthy volunteers, and patients with glioblastoma using [11C]AZ14193391
Zsolt Cselényi, Aurelija Jucaite, Giuseppe Stragliotto, Jiri Bartek, Peter Johnström, Andy Pike, Miguel A Cortés González, Antonia Högnäsbacka, Kenneth Dahl, Avipsa Ghosh, Jeffrey W Johannes, Anna D Staniszewska, Elisabetta Leo, Petra Hamerlik, Barry Davies, Sabina Cosulich, John Swales, Rachel Lawrence, Massimo Squatrito, Nancy Kathryn Mueller, Yasir Khani, Vasco C Sousa, Per Stenkrona, Christer Halldin, Lars Farde, Magnus Schou
Neuro-Oncology, Volume 28, Issue 3, March 2026, doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noaf290

PET imaging of mitochondrial complex-I in the adenine-induced tubulointerstitial nephropathy mouse model using [18F]BCPP-BF
Kenneth Dahl, Peter Johnström, Miklós Toth, Vasco C. Sousa, Charlotte Ericsson, Maria Strömstedt, Tord Inghardt, Miguel A. Cortés González, Anna Reznichenko, Aurelija Jucaite, Zsolt Cselényi, Robert Unwin, Hiroyuki Ohba, Christer Halldin, Benjamin Challis, Hideo Tsukada & Magnus Schou
EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry, 10, 66 (2025), doi: 10.1186/s41181-025-00392-1

Development and In Vitro Characterization of [3H]GMC-058 as Radioligand for Imaging Parkinsonian-Related Proteinopathies
Andrea Varrone, Vasco C Sousa, Manolo Mugnaini, Sandra Biesinger, Gunnar Nordvall, Lee Kingston, Ileana Guzzetti, Charles S Elmore, Dan Sunnemark, Dinahlee Saturnino Guarino, Sjoerd J Finnema, Magnus Schou,
Cells 2025 Jun;14(12):

P014 First-time-in-human visualisation of CCR9 expression in the gut by positron emission tomography
J MacKay, Aurelija Jucaite, Zsolt Cselényi, P Johnström, Kenneth Dahl, Magnus Schou, Per Stenkrona, Vasco C Sousa, Miguel A. Cortes Gonzalez, P Giffen, G Bouma, J Nys, M Brülls, M Duncan, J Larsson, A Lundahl , K Les, J Bergare, Charles S Elmore, J Kiraga, F X Blé, A Fowler, M Belvisi, D Marks
Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Volume 18, Issue Supplement_1, January 2024, Page i260

Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of [11C]AZ11895530 for PET Imaging of the Serotonin 1A Receptor.
Kenneth Dahl, Peter Johnström, Anton Forsberg Morén, Björn Gustafsson, Patricia Miranda-Azpiazu, Yaser Khani, Christer Halldin, Lars Farde, Charles S Elmore, Magnus Schou
ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2022 Jul;13(14):2078-2083