Christopher H. Contag

26.0k citations

354 papers · 20.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 75

Impact in

Biophysics top 0.05%
Biotechnology top 0.1%

Papers in

Biophysics 51
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques 26
Biotechnology 38
- Cancer Research and Treatments 27

Co-authors: Michael H. Bachmann Robert S. Negrin Pamela R. Contag Jonathan Hardy David K. Stevenson Michael J. Mandella Andreas Beilhack Brian D. Ross
Journals: Journal of Biomedical Optics (16 papers)Blood (14 papers)Molecular Imaging and Biology (11 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (11 papers)Molecular Imaging (11 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Christopher H. Contag

349 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Adipose-derived adult stromal cells heal critical-size mouse calvarial defects 2004 · 729 citations

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it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2004 Nature Biotechnology
2004 Nature
2002 Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

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1	Targeted intracellular delivery of molecular cargo to hypoxic human breast cancer stem cells Cancer Communications ·Ashley V. Makela, А А Абаимова, Huiping Liu, Ali M Alhussain, Terry Hermiston, V. Keerthivasan, Elena A. Goun, Christopher H. Contag	2025	0
2	An insect-based bioelectronic sensing system combining flexible dual-sided microelectrode array and insect olfactory circuitry for human lung cancer detection Biosensors and Bioelectronics ·Xiang Liu, Melanie Goodchild, Sheila Alcaine Garcia, Reed Riddle, Wolfgang Gitter, Malikulsaleh Malikulsaleh, Christopher H. Contag, Debajit Saha, Wen Li	2025	1
3	Engineering Magnetotactic Bacteria as Medical Microrobots Advanced Materials ·Jiaqi Wang, Yi Xing, IGB Adi Dharmawan, Laura Berenice Rosas-Trujillo, 友森, Lukas Niemeier, Rana Bhattacharya, Ashley V. Makela, Christopher H. Contag, Jinxing Li	2025	8
4	Precision detection of select human lung cancer biomarkers and cell lines using honeybee olfactory neural circuitry as a novel gas sensor Biosensors and Bioelectronics ·Tessa Seale, ML Ansell, П Е Пестряков, Monique Bessou, Melanie Goodchild, 春樹静, А А Абаимова, Majid Valiyan-Borujeni, Marie-Florence Estimé, Zhenjie Hou, Christopher H. Contag, Debajit Saha	2024	10
5	Black bear density and habitat use variation at the Sierra Nevada‐Great Basin Desert transition Journal of Wildlife Management ·Tianhong Liu, Ахмедбекова Алевтина Виктoровна, Ela Jazilah, 健山本, Chan-Yang Hsu, Christopher H. Contag, Carl W. Lackey, Jon P. Beckmann, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Robert A. Montgomery	2023	2
6	Tracking the fates of iron-labeled tumor cells in vivo using magnetic particle imaging Nanoscale Advances ·Ashley V. Makela, Olech, Wołodymyr Pedycz, Walentyna, Widia Hesti, Léa Mauro, Paula J. Foster, Christopher H. Contag	2022	14
7	Magnetothermal Control of Temperature-Sensitive Repressors in Superparamagnetic Iron Nanoparticle-Coated Bacillus subtilis ACS Nano ·健山本, Brandon Fricke, Ashley V. Makela, Christopher H. Contag	2022	10
8	A protease-activated, near-infrared fluorescent probe for early endoscopic detection of premalignant gastrointestinal lesions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Joshua J. Yim, Stefan Harmsen, Krzysztof Flisikowski, Tatiana Flisikowska, Hong Namkoong, Megan Garland, Nynke S. van den Berg, José G. Vilches-Moure, Angelika Schnieke, Dieter Saur, Sarah Glasl, Dimitris Gorpas, Aida Habtezion, Vasilis Ntziachristos, Christopher H. Contag, Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Matthew Bogyo, Stephan Rogalla	2020	53
9	Microvesicle-Mediated Delivery of Minicircle DNA Results in Effective Gene-Directed Enzyme Prodrug Cancer Therapy Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Masamitsu Kanada, 殷海涛, Jonathan Hardy, John A. Ronald, Michael H. Bachmann, Matthew P. Bernard, Gloria I. Perez, Rana Bhattacharya, T. Jessie Ge, Takaaki Yoshimoto, P Ellies, Syari Bunga Allifia, Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Ramasamy Paulmurugan, Christopher H. Contag	2019	56
10	Regulatory Aspects of Optical Methods and Exogenous Targets for Cancer Detection Cancer Research ·Willemieke S. Tummers, Jason M. Warram, Kiranya E. Tipirneni, 高充高橋, Paula Jacobs, Lalitha Shankar, Lori Henderson, Zhixuan Hu, T. Joshua Pfefer, Brian W. Pogue, Jamey P. Weichert, Michael Bouvet, Jonathan Sorger, Christopher H. Contag, John V. Frangioni, Michael F. Tweedle, James P. Basilion, Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Eben L. Rosenthal	2017	69
11	Neutrophil myeloperoxidase diminishes the toxic effects and mortality induced by lipopolysaccharide The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Laurent L. Reber, Caitlin M. Gillis, Philipp Starkl, Friederike Jönsson, Riccardo Sibilano, Thomas Marichal, Nicolas Gaudenzio, M Bérard, Stephan Rogalla, Christopher H. Contag, Pierre Bruhns, Stephen J. Galli	2017	85
12	Image-guided genomic analysis of tissue response to laser-induced thermal stress Journal of Biomedical Optics ·Mark A. Mackanos, Mike W. Helms, Flora Kalish, Christopher H. Contag	2011	5
13	Definition of an Enhanced Immune Cell Therapy in Mice That Can Target Stem-Like Lymphoma Cells Cancer Research ·Christopher H. Contag, Rachel Sikorski, Robert S. Negrin, Tobi Schmidt, Alice C. Fan, Pavan Bachireddy, Dean W. Felsher, Steve H. Thorne	2010	24
14	Longitudinal, Noninvasive Imaging of T-Cell Effector Function and Proliferation in Living Subjects Cancer Research ·Manishkumar Patel, Ya-Fang Chang, Ian Y. Chen, Michael H. Bachmann, Xinrui Yan, Christopher H. Contag, Sanjiv S. Gambhir	2010	45
15	TOB1 Is Regulated by EGF-Dependent HER2 and EGFR Signaling, Is Highly Phosphorylated, and Indicates Poor Prognosis in Node-Negative Breast Cancer Cancer Research ·Mike W. Helms, Dirk Kemming, Christopher H. Contag, Heike Pospisil, Kai Bartkowiak, Alice Wang, Sheng-Yung Chang, Horst Buerger, Burkhard Brandt	2009	33
16	Lymphoid tissue–specific homing of bone marrow–derived dendritic cells Blood ·Rémi J. Creusot, Shahriar Yaghoubi, Pearl Chang, Wang Sen-lin, Christopher H. Contag, Sanjiv S. Gambhir, C. Garrison Fathman	2009	56
17	CNOB/ChrR6, a new prodrug enzyme cancer chemotherapy Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Steve H. Thorne, Yoram Barak, Apoorv Pant, Michael H. Bachmann, Jianghong Rao, Christopher H. Contag, A. Matin	2009	34
18	Inhibition of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T-cell function by calcineurin-dependent interleukin-2 production Blood ·Robert Zeiser, Vu Nguyen, Andreas Beilhack, Martin Buess, Stephan Schulz, Jeanette Baker, Christopher H. Contag, Robert S. Negrin	2006	390
19	Induced Biliary Excretion of Listeria monocytogenes Infection and Immunity ·Jonathan Hardy, Jeffrey J. Margolis, Christopher H. Contag	2006	63
20	Cellular tolerance to pulsed heating Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·A. Pöschl, Daniel Palanker, Jun Fun, Myung-Jong Chae, Sérvulo Esmeraldo, V Wakida, Christopher H. Contag	2005	2

About Christopher H. Contag

Christopher H. Contag is a scholar working on Biophysics, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Genetics, having authored 354 papers that have together received 20.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research (63 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (46 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (40 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (30 papers), Cancer Research and Treatments (27 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (26 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (21 papers) and CAR-T cell therapy research (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biophysics (2.3k citations), Biotechnology (1.4k citations), Molecular Biology (9.9k citations), Immunology (2.9k citations) and Genetics (1.4k citations). Christopher H. Contag has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Michael H. Bachmann, Robert S. Negrin, Pamela R. Contag, Jonathan Hardy, David K. Stevenson, Michael J. Mandella, Andreas Beilhack, Brian D. Ross, Steve H. Thorne and Matthias Edinger. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biomedical Optics, Blood, Molecular Imaging and Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular Imaging.

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