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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN -School of Medicine & Public Health

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Onofre T. DeJesus, Ph.D.

Professor, Medical Physics

B1316 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR)

UW-Department of Medical Physics

Madison, WI 53705

Telephone: 608/263-8929 office

Fax: 608/262-2413

E-mail: odjesus@wisc.edu

 Research Interest: Development of PET imaging agents to study CNS dopamine and serotonin metabolism in vivo; radiopharmaceutical chemistry; positron emission tomography of the brain.

OTHER DEPARTMENT AFFILIATIONS [back to top of page]

• Medical Physics

EDUCATION [back to top of page]

• B.S., Chemistry, University of the Philippines, Philippines

• Ph.D., Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA  

POSITIONS [back to top of page]

• Associate Professor, Departments of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

• Professor, Departments of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

AWARDS AND HONORS [back to top of page]

• Third Highest Rating, Chemistry Board Examination (Philippines)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fellow
• Academic Keys Who's Who in Medicine Acadmia 
• Marquis Who's Who in America

MEMBERSHIPS [back to top of page]

• Society of Nuclear Medicine
• Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE)
• Movement of Disorder Society
• Society for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences

PATENTS [back to top of page]

PUBLICATIONS [back to top of page]

1. DeJesus O T;Sunderland J J;Nickles J R;Mukherjee J;Appelman E H Synthesis of radiofluorinated analogs of m-tyrosine as potential l-dopa tracers via direct reaction with acetylhypofluorite International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation Part A, Applied Radiation and Isotopes 41 433-7 1990;

2. DeJesus O T;Holden J E;Endres C;Murali D;Oakes T R;Shelton S;Uno H;Houser D;Freund L;Perlman S B;Et Al Visualization of dopamine nerve terminals by positron tomography using 18ffluoro-beta-fluoromethylene-m-tyrosine Brain Research 597 151-4 1992 Nov 27;

3. Murali D;DeJesus O T;Sunderland J J;Nickles R J 18ffluoro-beta-fluoromethylene-m-tyrosine analogs, potential pet agents for presynaptic dopamine terminals: synthesis and spectroscopic characterization International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation Part A, Applied Radiation and Isotopes 43 969-77 1992 Aug

    

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