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Christopher D. Collier

Medicine · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2014Rising activity
Sarcoma Diagnosis and TreatmentNeurofibromatosis and Schwannoma CasesNeuroblastoma Research and TreatmentsClick Chemistry and ApplicationsHistone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research

Publications

93

Citations

285

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

13

Publishing since 2014

Research summary
AI-generated

Christopher D. Collier conducts research in cancer medicine, with a focus on bone and soft-tissue tumors such as osteosarcoma and sarcoma. A recent line of work uses three-dimensional tumor cell clusters (spheroids) to test already-approved cancer drugs, aiming to identify existing medicines that could be repurposed for these cancers. The work spans laboratory drug screening and translational cancer biology.

Sarcoma and osteosarcoma treatmentDrug repurposing / FDA-approved drug screening3D tumor spheroid modelsPediatric and nerve-related tumors (neuroblastoma, neurofibromatosis)Histone deacetylase inhibitor research

Publication activity was modest and steady from 2017 through 2024 (typically a few papers per year) before a sharp spike in 2025, largely reflecting a single multi-part study.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through April 2030 — about 4 years of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNIH K08AR082457through Apr 2030 · $156k awarded

    Metastatic Bone Disease and IL-6 as Drivers of Cachexia in Kidney Cancer

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 4,618 mid career Medicine PIs within our index
Citations: 285cohort median 616
h-index: 10cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 15.0cohort median 3.4

Typically publishes in teams of ~13 · 15% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 14 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 15.0/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 2 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 8 publications202021: 3 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 5 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 61 publications61252026: 3 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 6 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 1 collaborator at the same institution2025: 5 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research×7
  • Proceedings of IMPRS×6
  • Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery×2
  • PubMed×2
  • Advances in experimental medicine and biology×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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