Special Issue "Pharmacology and Bioinformatics and Applications in Inflammation and Cancer"

Dear Colleagues,

Inflammation is causally related to cancer development through processes of complex biomolecular changes. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying inflammation-induced cancer may prospectively facilitate the discovery of drugs targeting cancer initiation or progression. Over the past decade, the development of high-throughput omics approaches and novel bioinformatics tools has paved the way for clarifying the mechanisms underlying these processes. Meanwhile, with the recent advances in systems biology and bioinformatics, network pharmacology has emerged and significantly reshaped the paradigm of drug discovery.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to submit work presenting the most recent advances in and future perspectives on the key molecular events which determine the inflammation-to-cancer transformation and may serve as the therapeutic targets or the screening/diagnostic biomarkers. Equally welcome are the applications of innovative in silico or experimental approaches to the development of potential therapeutics for inflammation-induced cancer. Additionally, due to biomolecular complexity and the fact that several biomedical fields are involved, studies using multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to elucidate the drug action and molecular mechanisms underlying inflammation-to-cancer phenotypes are especially welcome.

Prof. Dr. Shao Li
Prof. Dr. Liren Liu
Prof. Dr. Yang Sun
Guest Editors

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• inflammation-induced cancer
• bioinformatics
• network pharmacology
• systems biology
• therapeutic target
• diagnostic biomarker
• molecular mechanism
• drug action
• drug discovery
• cancer therapy
• Chinese herbal compounds