Stimuli‐responsive biomaterials for vaccines and immunotherapeutic applications

N Pacifici, A Bolandparvaz, JS Lewis - Advanced therapeutics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The immune system is the key target for vaccines and immunotherapeutic approaches
aimed at blunting infectious diseases, cancer, autoimmunity, and implant rejection …

Responsive biomaterials: optimizing control of cancer immunotherapy

L Xue, AS Thatte, D Mai, RM Haley, N Gong… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has emerged as an eminent and effective modality in the treatment of
cancer. However, current cancer immunotherapies lack spatial and temporal control …

Utilization of Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials in the Formulation of Cancer Vaccines

AK Singh, R Malviya, B Prajapati, S Singh… - Journal of Functional …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Immunology research has focused on developing cancer vaccines to increase the number of
tumor-specific effector cells and their ability to fight cancer over the last few decades. There …

Biomaterials as tools to decode immunity

HB Eppler, CM Jewell - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The immune system has remarkable capabilities to combat disease with exquisite selectivity.
This feature has enabled vaccines that provide protection for decades and, more recently …

Engineering vaccines and niches for immune modulation

A Purwada, K Roy, A Singh - Acta biomaterialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Controlled modulation of immune response, especially the balance between
immunostimulatory and immunosuppressive responses, is critical for a variety of clinical …

Biomaterial strategies for generating therapeutic immune responses

SH Kelly, LS Shores, NL Votaw, JH Collier - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biomaterials employed to raise therapeutic immune responses have become a complex and
active field. Historically, vaccines have been developed primarily to fight infectious diseases …

Engaging adaptive immunity with biomaterials

C Mora-Solano, JH Collier - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Adaptive immune responses, characterized by T cells and B cells engaging and responding
to specific antigens, can be raised by biomaterials containing proteins, peptides, and other …

Engineering synthetic vaccines using cues from natural immunity

DJ Irvine, MA Swartz, GL Szeto - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Vaccines aim to protect against or treat diseases through manipulation of the immune
response, promoting either immunity or tolerance. In the former case, vaccines generate …

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 …

Biomaterial strategies for immunomodulation

NA Hotaling, L Tang, DJ Irvine… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Strategies to enhance, suppress, or qualitatively shape the immune response are of
importance for diverse biomedical applications, such as the development of new vaccines …