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Alexey Kostikov

ResearcherNeurology and NeurosurgeryMcGill University

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Alexey Kostikov

Researcher

Neurology and Neurosurgery

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (1 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2023.

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Research

Breast Cancer Fluorine-18 Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor (Grpr)Heterocyclic Silicon Fluoride Acceptors (Hetsifa)Lutetium-177 Positron Emission Tomography (Pet)Prostate Cancer Radioligand Therapy (Rlt)

Latest papers

Silapiperidine-silicon-fluoride acceptors (Pip-SiFA) for 18F-radiolabelling.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2026
Kinetic modeling of the tropomyosin receptor kinases radioligand [18F]TRACK in human brain with high-resolution positron emission tomography.
Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026
Subcortical microglial inflammation is uniquely linked to subpial cortical demyelination in multiple sclerosis.
NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026

All 30 publications

Latest funding

Development of radiotwin 18F/177Lu theranostic radiopharmaceuticals targeting gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR)
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$956,250
Unraveling Silent Progression in MS Using Advanced Quantitative MRI, PET Molecular Imaging and Computational Neuroanatomy
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$914,175
Novel organosilicon molecular scaffolds as a platform to design positron emission tomography tracers via Si-18F bond formation (SiFEx).
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$72,000

All 4 grants and awards

30 publications.

Silapiperidine-silicon-fluoride acceptors (Pip-SiFA) for 18F-radiolabelling.

Burley D, Singleton TA, Edelmann S, Kostikov A, Lumb JP

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)2026

DOI: 10.1039/d6cc02632j PMID: 42383449

Kinetic modeling of the tropomyosin receptor kinases radioligand [18F]TRACK in human brain with high-resolution positron emission tomography.

Ramos-Jiménez C, Nisha Aji K, Hung-Hsin Hsiao C, Grouza V, Hopewell R, Jaworski C, Massarweh G, Soucy JP, Chartrand D, Schirrmacher R, Kostikov A, Thiel A, Rusjan PM

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2026

DOI: 10.1177/0271678x261463956 PMID: 42319003

Subcortical microglial inflammation is uniquely linked to subpial cortical demyelination in multiple sclerosis.

Thevakumaran R, Blinder S, Couch M, Kostikov A, Arnaoutelis R, Narayanan S, Rosa-Neto P, Arnold DL, Rudko DA

NeuroImage. Clinical2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2026.103962 PMID: 41722502

Development of Heteroaromatic Silicon Fluoride Acceptors (HetSiFAs) for 18F‑Labeled Radiopharmaceuticals

Singleton TA, Jun H, Deore PS, Estrada C, Atienza BJP, Delecueillerie J, El-Zaria ME, Genady AR, Zhao E, Edelmann S

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry20253 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c01087

Development and clinical potential of 18F-PSiMA for prostate cancer PET imaging.

Gower-Fry L, Bailey JJ, Wuest M, Pike S, Kostikov A, Dorian A, Wängler C, Wuest F, Schirrmacher R

RSC medicinal chemistry2025

DOI: 10.1039/d5md00275c PMID: 40462771

Testing PET-[ 11 C]ABP688 as a tool to quantify glutamate release in vivo.

Bdair H, Sato-Fitoussi M, Planche S, Moquin L, Kang MS, Aliaga A, Nagano-Saito A, Smart K, Cox SML, Near J, Aguilar-Valles A, Massarweh G, Rosa-Neto P, Benkelfat C, Soucy JP, Kostikov A, Gratton A, Leyton M

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2024

DOI: 10.1162/imag_a_00126 PMID: 40800322

Brain PET Imaging in Small Animals: Tracer Formulation, Data Acquisition, Image Reconstruction, and Data Analysis.

Bdair H, Kang MS, Ottoy J, Aliaga A, Kunach P, Singleton TA, Blinder S, Soucy JP, Leyton M, Rosa-Neto P, Kostikov A

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3499-8_16 PMID: 38006502

Dosimetry of [18F]TRACK, the first PET tracer for imaging of TrkB/C receptors in humans.

Thiel A, Kostikov A, Ahn H, Daoud Y, Soucy JP, Blinder S, Jaworski C, Wängler C, Wängler B, Juengling F, Enger SA, Schirrmacher R

EJNMMI radiopharmacy and chemistry2023

DOI: 10.1186/s41181-023-00219-x PMID: 37870640

Radiosynthesis and In Vivo Evaluation of Four Positron Emission Tomography Tracer Candidates for Imaging of Melatonin Receptors.

Bdair H, Singleton TA, Ross K, Jolly D, Kang MS, Aliaga A, Tuznik M, Kaur T, Yous S, Soucy JP, Massarweh G, Scott PJH, Koeppe R, Spadoni G, Bedini A, Rudko DA, Gobbi G, Benkelfat C, Rosa-Neto P, Brooks AF, Kostikov A

ACS chemical neuroscience2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.1c00678 PMID: 35420022

Efficient radiosynthesis and preclinical evaluation of [18 F]FOMPyD as a positron emission tomography tracer candidate for TrkB/C receptor imaging.

Singleton TA, Bdair H, Bailey JJ, Choi S, Aliaga A, Rosa-Neto P, Schirrmacher R, Bernard-Gauthier V, Kostikov A

Journal of labelled compounds & radiopharmaceuticals2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.3827 PMID: 31919878

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Alexey Kostikov

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Silapiperidine-silicon-fluoride acceptors (Pip-SiFA) for 18F-radiolabelling.

Kinetic modeling of the tropomyosin receptor kinases radioligand [18F]TRACK in human brain with high-resolution positron emission tomography.

Subcortical microglial inflammation is uniquely linked to subpial cortical demyelination in multiple sclerosis.

Development of Heteroaromatic Silicon Fluoride Acceptors (HetSiFAs) for 18F‑Labeled Radiopharmaceuticals

Development and clinical potential of 18F-PSiMA for prostate cancer PET imaging.

Testing PET-[ 11 C]ABP688 as a tool to quantify glutamate release in vivo.

Brain PET Imaging in Small Animals: Tracer Formulation, Data Acquisition, Image Reconstruction, and Data Analysis.

Dosimetry of [18F]TRACK, the first PET tracer for imaging of TrkB/C receptors in humans.

Radiosynthesis and In Vivo Evaluation of Four Positron Emission Tomography Tracer Candidates for Imaging of Melatonin Receptors.

Efficient radiosynthesis and preclinical evaluation of [18 F]FOMPyD as a positron emission tomography tracer candidate for TrkB/C receptor imaging.

Development of radiotwin 18F/177Lu theranostic radiopharmaceuticals targeting gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR)

Unraveling Silent Progression in MS Using Advanced Quantitative MRI, PET Molecular Imaging and Computational Neuroanatomy

Novel organosilicon molecular scaffolds as a platform to design positron emission tomography tracers via Si-18F bond formation (SiFEx).

Non-invasive PET imaging of tropomyosin related kinase B/C receptor in humans

Frequent collaborators

Pedro Rosa-Neto

Jean-Paul Soucy

Alexander Thiel

Ralf Schirrmacher

Marco Leyton

Naguib Mechawar

Jean-Philip Lumb

Serge Gauthier

Julie Ottoy

Michel Boivin

Sylvia Villeneuve

Jamie Near

Sridar Narayanan

Numa Dancause

Frank Wuest

Natalia Jaworska

Saman Sadeghi

Argel Aguilar Valles

Luciano Minuzzi

Alan Evans

Jens Pruessner

Gabriella Gobbi

Judes Poirier