Targeted modulation of immune cells and tissues using engineered biomaterials

P Yousefpour, K Ni, DJ Irvine - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Therapies modulating the immune system offer the prospect of treating a wide range of
conditions including infectious diseases, cancer and autoimmunity. Biomaterials can …

Covalent organic frameworks for biomedical applications

A Esrafili, A Wagner, S Inamdar… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are porous organic polymeric materials that are
composed of organic elements and linked together by the thermodynamically stable …

High-throughput and high-content bioassay enables tuning of polyester nanoparticles for cellular uptake, endosomal escape, and systemic in vivo delivery of mRNA

Y Rui, DR Wilson, SY Tzeng, HM Yamagata… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Nanoparticle-based mRNA therapeutics hold great promise, but cellular internalization and
endosomal escape remain key barriers for cytosolic delivery. We developed a dual …

Nanobiomaterial-based vaccination immunotherapy of cancer

F Chen, Y Wang, J Gao, M Saeed, T Li, W Wang, H Yu - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapies including cancer vaccines, immune checkpoint blockade or
chimeric antigen receptor T cells have been exploited as the attractive treatment modalities …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional nanocomposites modulating the tumor microenvironment for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

P Sharma, M Otto - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy has gained momentum for treating malignant tumors over the past
decade. Checkpoint blockade and chimeric antigen receptor cell therapy (CAR-T) have …

Biomaterials to enhance antigen-specific T cell expansion for cancer immunotherapy

A Isser, NK Livingston, JP Schneck - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
T cells are often referred to as the 'guided missiles' of our immune system because of their
capacity to traffic to and accumulate at sites of infection or disease, destroy infected or …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting strategies for mRNA delivery

RA Meyer, SY Neshat, JJ Green, JL Santos… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract mRNA gene therapy has recently emerged as a candidate to enable multiple
therapeutic applications including protein replacement therapy, vaccine immunology, and …

Biomaterials-mediated engineering of the immune system

C Backlund, S Jalili-Firoozinezhad… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Modulation of the immune system is an important therapeutic strategy in a wide range of
diseases, and is fundamental to the development of vaccines. However, optimally safe and …

Polymeric nanoparticle gel for intracellular mRNA delivery and immunological reprogramming of tumors

SY Neshat, CHR Chan, J Harris, OM Zmily, S Est-Witte… - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Immuno-oncology therapies have been of great interest with the goal of inducing sustained
tumor regression, but clinical results have demonstrated the need for improved and widely …

Cell fate reprogramming in the era of cancer immunotherapy

O Zimmermannova, I Caiado, AG Ferreira… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Advances in understanding how cancer cells interact with the immune system allowed the
development of immunotherapeutic strategies, harnessing patients' immune system to fight …