Recent Advances in Precision Medicine: Personalized Therapy, Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine

A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy and Drug Delivery".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2024 | Viewed by 6653

Special Issue Editors

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, Departments of Pathology and Surgery/Urology, Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
Interests: urologic pathology (bladder cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer, testicular cancer); molecular diagnostics; molecular pathology of solid tumors
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Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University, Division of Hematology/Oncology, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
Interests: oncology; hematology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: oncology; hematology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Personalized therapy is an emerging research area for disease treatment taking into account individual difference in genes, environment and lifestyles. Nanomedicine and targeted drug delivery allow us to rapidly and accurately detect disease and develop highly effective treatments.

We hope to review the recent advances and upcoming technologies that will define how we can provide personalized treatment supported by individual patient or tumor molecular features or tailored to specific patient populations through targeted drug delivery. This Special Issue will cover established, new, and upcoming potential drugs, novel diagnostic modalities and therapeutic strategies, genomic discovery, nanomedicine, and cutting-edge technologies employed at all stages of target and drug discovery, validation, and delivery. It will also explore the role of machine learning in refining the understanding of mechanisms of resistance and signaling within complex pathophysiological systems.

We invite established investigators to contribute with original research and review articles. The submission deadline is May 1, 2023.

Sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Liang Cheng
Dr. Benedito A. Carneiro
Dr. Chong-Xian Pan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • personalized therapy
  • drug delivery
  • precision genomics
  • nanomedicine
  • therapeutic strategies
  • machine learning
  • cancers
  • precision oncology

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Analysis of Clinical Trials and Review of Recent Advances in Therapy Decisions for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
by Norman R. Williams
J. Pers. Med. 2023, 13(6), 938; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13060938 - 01 Jun 2023
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Despite the implementation of screening and early detection in many countries, the prostate cancer mortality rate remains high, particularly when the cancer is locally advanced. Targeted therapies with high efficacy and minimal harms should be particularly beneficial in this group, and several new [...] Read more.
Despite the implementation of screening and early detection in many countries, the prostate cancer mortality rate remains high, particularly when the cancer is locally advanced. Targeted therapies with high efficacy and minimal harms should be particularly beneficial in this group, and several new approaches show promise. This article briefly analyses relevant clinical studies listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, combined with a short literature review that considers new therapeutic approaches that can be investigated in future clinical trials. Therapies using gold nanoparticles are of special interest in low-resource settings as they can localize and enhance the cancer-cell killing potential of X-rays using equipment that is already widely available. Full article
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Precision Medicine on the Effects of Microbiota on Head–Neck Diseases and Biomarkers Diagnosis
by Angelo Michele Inchingolo, Giuseppina Malcangi, Fabio Piras, Giulia Palmieri, Vito Settanni, Lilla Riccaldo, Roberta Morolla, Silvio Buongiorno, Elisabetta de Ruvo, Alessio Danilo Inchingolo, Antonio Mancini, Francesco Inchingolo, Gianna Dipalma, Stefania Benagiano, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia and Assunta Patano
J. Pers. Med. 2023, 13(6), 933; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13060933 - 31 May 2023
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Precision medicine using highly precise technologies and big data has produced personalised medicine with rapid and reliable diagnoses and targeted therapies. The most recent studies have directed precision medicine into the study of tumours. The application of precision medicine in the oral microbiota [...] Read more.
Precision medicine using highly precise technologies and big data has produced personalised medicine with rapid and reliable diagnoses and targeted therapies. The most recent studies have directed precision medicine into the study of tumours. The application of precision medicine in the oral microbiota can be used both in the field of prevention and treatment in the strictly dental field. This article aims to evaluate the interaction between microbiota and oral cancer and the presence of biomarkers as risk predictors. Materials and Methods: A literature search of PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science was performed analysing the various interactions between microorganisms, biomarkers, and oral cancer. Results: After screening processes, 21 articles were selected for qualitative analysis. Conclusion: The correlation between oral diseases/cancers and changes in the microbiota explains the increasing utility of precision medicine in enhancing diagnosis and adapting treatment on the individual components of the microbiota. Diagnosing and treating oral diseases and cancers through precision medicine gives, as well as economic advantages to the health care system, predictable and rapid management of the patient. Full article
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Precision Medicine in Oral Health and Diseases: A Systematic Review
by Giuseppina Malcangi, Assunta Patano, Mariafrancesca Guglielmo, Roberta Sardano, Giulia Palmieri, Chiara Di Pede, Elisabetta de Ruvo, Alessio Danilo Inchingolo, Antonio Mancini, Francesco Inchingolo, Ioana Roxana Bordea, Gianna Dipalma and Angelo Michele Inchingolo
J. Pers. Med. 2023, 13(5), 725; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13050725 - 25 Apr 2023
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Precision medicine (PM) is personalized medicine that can develop targeted medical therapies for the individual patient, in which “omics” sciences lead to an integration of data that leads to highly predictive models of the functioning of the individual biological system. They enable rapid [...] Read more.
Precision medicine (PM) is personalized medicine that can develop targeted medical therapies for the individual patient, in which “omics” sciences lead to an integration of data that leads to highly predictive models of the functioning of the individual biological system. They enable rapid diagnosis, assessment of disease dynamics, identification of targeted treatment protocols, and reduction of costs and psychological stress. “Precision dentistry” (DP) is one promising application that need further investigation; the purpose of this paper is therefore to give physicians an overview of the knowledge they need to enhance treatment planning and patient response to therapy. A systematic literature review was conducted on the PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases by analyzing the articles examining the role of precision medicine in dentistry. PM aims to shed light on cancer prevention strategies, by identifying risk factors, and on malformations such as orofacial cleft. Another application is pain management by repurposing drugs created for other diseases to target biochemical mechanisms. The significant heritability of traits regulating bacterial colonization and local inflammatory responses is another result of genomic research, and is useful for DP in the field of caries and periodontitis. This approach may also be useful in the field of orthodontics and regenerative dentistry. The possibility of creating an international network of databases will lead to the diagnosis, prediction, and prevention of disease outbreaks, providing significant economic savings for the world’s health care systems. Full article
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A Historical Misconception in Clinical Trials of Drugs for Cancer—Age Grouping
by Jingyu Chen, Lan Yao, Abdulmohsin J. Alamoudi, Lotfi Aleya and Weikuan Gu
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(12), 1998; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12121998 - 02 Dec 2022
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In clinical trials of cancer drugs, grouping by age is a very common grouping method, as it can allow for a visual comparison of the different pharmaceutical responses in patients at different age stages. Under the guidance of this thinking, many researchers use [...] Read more.
In clinical trials of cancer drugs, grouping by age is a very common grouping method, as it can allow for a visual comparison of the different pharmaceutical responses in patients at different age stages. Under the guidance of this thinking, many researchers use age grouping when studying clinical cancer drugs. However, even people at the same age may be at different stages in their lives, such as individuals who are going through puberty, menopause/andropause, or intermediate transition, as well as childhood and old age, affected by factors such as hormone levels, immune responses, ethnic groups, and regions. Every individual has different cancer symptoms and responses to drugs; therefore, the experimental effect of life stage grouping will be more obvious and clearer. Not only does this conclusion apply to cancer drugs, but it also applies to clinical trials for other diseases. In addition, this does not mean that age grouping should be completely abandoned. Life stage is a more general interval that can be further divided into life stage groups according to the age of the patients. Based on the principal law of lifespan (PLOSP), age trends in life stages also need to be updated from time to time. To date, life stage grouping has not been discussed systematically and has not been used as a grouping method for cancer patients. In this paper, life stage grouping is discussed as one of the important grouping categories in cancer clinical trials. Full article
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