Engineering in medicine to address the challenge of cancer drug resistance: from micro-and nanotechnologies to computational and mathematical modeling

M Craig, AL Jenner, B Namgung, LP Lee… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Drug resistance has profoundly limited the success of cancer treatment, driving relapse,
metastasis, and mortality. Nearly all anticancer drugs and even novel immunotherapies …

Model predictive control and its role in biomedical therapeutic automation: A brief review

S Parihar, P Shah, R Sekhar, J Lagoo - Applied System Innovation, 2022 - mdpi.com
The reliable and effective automation of biomedical therapies is the need of the hour for
medical professionals. A model predictive controller (MPC) has the ability to handle complex …

A Bayesian model of COVID-19 cases based on the Gompertz curve

Á Berihuete, M Sánchez-Sánchez, A Suárez-Llorens - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for finding mathematical models to
forecast the evolution of the contagious disease and evaluate the success of particular …

Bistability in a model of tumor-immune system interactions with an oncolytic viral therapy

G Vithanage, HC Wei, SRJ Jang - 2022 - ttu-ir.tdl.org
A mathematical model of tumor-immune system interactions with an oncolytic virus therapy
for which the immune system plays a twofold role against cancer cells is derived. The …

Personalized immunotherapy treatment strategies for a dynamical system of chronic myelogenous leukemia

PA Valle, LN Coria, C Plata - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary As computer performance continues to grow at more affordable costs,
mathematical modelling and in silico experimentation begin to play a larger role in …

[HTML][HTML] A combination therapy of oncolytic viruses and chimeric antigen receptor T cells: a mathematical model proof-of-concept

KJ Mahasa, R Ouifki, A Eladdadi… - Mathematical …, 2022 - aimspress.com
Combining chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells with oncolytic viruses (OVs) has
recently emerged as a promising treatment approach in preclinical studies that aim to …

Oncolytic virus therapy benefits from control theory

AJN Anelone, MF Villa-Tamayo… - Royal Society open …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Oncolytic virus therapy aims to eradicate tumours using viruses which only infect and
destroy targeted tumour cells. It is urgent to improve understanding and outcomes of this …

[HTML][HTML] Improving immunovirotherapies: the intersection of mathematical modelling and experiments

CE Engeland, JPW Heidbuechel, RP Araujo… - ImmunoInformatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Combined oncolytic virotherapy and immunotherapy (immunovirotherapy) protocols
represent a promising treatment strategy for a range of cancers and offer many advantages …

Natural killer cells recruitment in oncolytic virotherapy: a mathematical model

NS Senekal, KJ Mahasa, A Eladdadi, L de Pillis… - Bulletin of Mathematical …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we investigate how natural killer (NK) cell recruitment to the tumor
microenvironment (TME) affects oncolytic virotherapy. NK cells play a major role against …

Optimal regulation of tumour-associated neutrophils in cancer progression

AA de Los Reyes, Y Kim - Royal Society open science, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In a tumour microenvironment, tumour-associated neutrophils could display two opposing
differential phenotypes: anti-tumour (N1) and pro-tumour (N2) effector cells. Converting N2 …