Boosting Cancer Immunotherapy with Nanomedicines: Novel Approaches and Promising Clinical Applications
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 315
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanomedicine; biology; cancer therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue entitled “Boosting Cancer Immunotherapy with Nanomedicines: Novel Approaches and Promising Clinical Applications”.
Tumors are conventionally treated by surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. However, tumor relapse and poor quality of life are forcing us to explore novel and complementary strategies. Targeting the immune system is becoming a valuable clinical approach, both as a first and second line of treatment for several malignancies. Different immunotherapy strategies have been proposed and are undergoing clinical evaluation including monoclonal antibodies, cancer vaccines, checkpoint inhibitors, cells therapies (chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, dendritic cell vaccine), and non-specific cancer immunotherapies (interleukins, cytokines, interferons, and others). Despite the clinical relevance of some of these strategies, many patients still experience limited efficacy and significant toxicity. Nanomedicines were originally designed to boost the uptake of cytotoxic agents by tumor cells and reduce off-target deleterious effects. Following the same principle, nanomedicines can be engineered to deliver immunological agents to the desired target site and reprogram the immune response.
This Special Issue aims to provide an update on the development of injectable and implantable systems for the precise delivery of immune modulators and cytotoxic molecules. The Special Issue will take into consideration the most recent approaches designed for both the systemic and the local delivery of agents targeting cancer cells, the tumor immune microenvironment, or the peripheral immune system. Moreover, the Special Issue is aimed at dissecting the mechanisms of interaction between nanomedicines and the immune system, and the technological and regulatory challenges that could limit the clinical translation of nanomedicine-based immunotherapies.
In this Special Issue, high-impact original research articles and reviews regarding the most recent progress in nanomedicine-based immunotherapy are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Systemic targeting of tumors by intravenously administered nanomedicines;
- Devices for the local delivery and sustained release of immunomodulatory drugs;
- Control of immunostimulation and spatio-temporal heterogeneity;
- Radiotherapy and immunotherapy;
- Chemotherapy and immunotherapy;
- Gene therapy and immunotherapy;
- Nanomaterials for immunotherapy.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Anna Lisa Palange
Prof. Dr. Paolo Decuzzi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- immunotherapy
- nanomedicine
- systemic and local delivery
- spatio-temporal heterogeneity
- gene therapy
