🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Robert J. Nims

Washington University in St. Louis

ORCID: 0000-0002-0856-3188

Also affiliated with Shriners Hospitals for Children - St. Louis

Medicine

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Papers

Driven by 14 papers. Top paper: “The chondrocyte “mechanome”: Activation of the mechanosensitive ion channels TRPV4 and PIEZO1 drives unique transcriptional signatures”.

The chondrocyte “mechanome”: Activation of the mechanosensitive ion channels TRPV4 and PIEZO1 drives unique transcriptional signatures

The FASEB Journal(2024)10.1096/fj.202400883r

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0.806DataRank · unranked

35 citations

Daniel R. Palmer, Jordan Kassab, Bo Zhang, Farshid Guilak, Robert J. Nims

Immature bovine cartilage wear by fatigue failure and delamination

Journal of Biomechanics(2020)10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.109852

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31 citations

Courtney Shaeffer, Brandon Zimmerman, Robert J. Nims, Sevan R. Oungoulian, Brian K. Jones +6 more

A synthetic mechanogenetic gene circuit for autonomous drug delivery in engineered tissues

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.04.29.069294

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9 citations

Lara Pferdehirt, Noelani Ho, Alireza Savadipour, Jeremiah Lorentz, Sima Sohi +8 more

Osteoarthritis: articular chondrocyte inflammatory signaling leads to enhanced gene expression and function of mechanotransduction channel Piezo1 as a pathogenic feed-forward mechanism

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.05.23.112565

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1 citations

Robert J. Nims, Alireza Savadipour, Holly A. Leddy, Fang Liu, Amy L. McNulty +4 more

Inflammatory signaling sensitizes Piezo1 mechanotransduction in articular chondrocytes as a pathogenic feed-forward mechanism in osteoarthritis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2021)10.1073/pnas.2001611118

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256 citations

Robert J. Nims, Alireza Savadipour, Qiaojuan Zhang, Holly A. Leddy, Fang Liu +5 more

A synthetic mechanogenetic gene circuit for autonomous drug delivery in engineered tissues

Science Advances(2021)10.1126/sciadv.abd9858

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88 citations

Lara Pferdehirt, Noelani Ho, Alireza Savadipour, Jeremiah Lorentz, Sima Sohi +8 more

Immunoengineering the next generation of arthritis therapies

Acta Biomaterialia(2021)10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.062

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44 citations

Robert J. Nims, Lara Pferdehirt, Kelsey H. Collins, Natalia S. Harasymowicz, Sara J. Oswald +3 more

Regulation of chondrocyte biosynthetic activity by dynamic hydrostatic pressure: the role of TRP channels

Connective Tissue Research(2021)10.1080/03008207.2020.1871475

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35 citations

Robert J. Nims, Dakota B. Katz, Farshid Guilak, Alireza Savadipour

Mechanogenetics: harnessing mechanobiology for cellular engineering

Current Opinion in Biotechnology(2021)10.1016/j.copbio.2021.09.011

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31 citations

Lara Pferdehirt, Farshid Guilak, Robert J. Nims

Membrane stretch as the mechanism of activation of PIEZO1 ion channels in chondrocytes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2023)10.1073/pnas.2221958120

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80 citations

Robert J. Nims, Neda Rashidi, Jaquelin M. Garcia‐Castorena, Ruhang Tang, Gabrielle K. Marushack +4 more

Activation of the mechanosensitive ion channels TRPV4 and PIEZO1 downregulates key regulatory systems in the chondrocyte mechanome

Connective Tissue Research(2025)10.1080/03008207.2025.2498512

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8 citations

Robert J. Nims, Bo Zhang, Farshid Guilak, Daniel R. Palmer

Polyunsaturated fatty acids suppress PIEZO ion channel mechanotransduction in articular chondrocytes

The FASEB Journal(2025)10.1096/fj.202400544rr

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6 citations

Alireza Savadipour, Ruhang Tang, Jaquelin M. Garcia‐Castorena, Neda Rashidi, Robert J. Nims +4 more

Direct Osmotic Pressure Measurements in Articular Cartilage Demonstrate Nonideal and Concentration-Dependent Phenomena

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering(2020)10.1115/1.4049158

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32 citations

Robert J. Nims, Alex Chen, Clark T. Hung, Gerard A. Ateshian, Brandon Zimmerman

PIEZO mechanosensitivity in chondrocytes is differentially modulated by L-type and T-type voltage-sensitive ion channels

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open(2025)10.1016/j.ocarto.2025.100710

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2 citations

Gabrielle K. Marushack, Robert J. Nims, Jaquelin M. Garcia‐Castorena, Wolfgang Liedtke, Farshid Guilak +1 more