Engineering nanosystems to overcome barriers to cancer diagnosis and treatment

SO Alhaj-Suliman, EI Wafa, AK Salem - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, multidisciplinary investigations into the development of
nanoparticles for medical applications have continually increased. However, nanoparticles …

[HTML][HTML] Surface-engineered nanoparticles in cancer immune response and immunotherapy: Current status and future prospects

J Chen, X Cong - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy is a therapeutic strategy to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis by
intervening in the immune response process. Strategies applied to cancer immunotherapy …

Cationic nanoparticles enhance T cell tumor infiltration and antitumor immune responses to a melanoma vaccine

R Smith, EI Wafa, SM Geary, K Ebeid… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
In clinical settings, cancer vaccines as monotherapies have displayed limited success
compared to other cancer immunotherapeutic treatments. Nanoscale formulations have the …

The effect of polyanhydride chemistry in particle-based cancer vaccines on the magnitude of the anti-tumor immune response

EI Wafa, SM Geary, JT Goodman, B Narasimhan… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
The goal of this research was to study the effect of polyanhydride chemistry on the immune
response induced by a prophylactic cancer vaccine based on biodegradable polyanhydride …

Single dose of a polyanhydride particle-based vaccine generates potent antigen-specific antitumor immune responses

EI Wafa, SM Geary, KA Ross, JT Goodman… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2019 - ASPET
Many factors affect vaccine efficacy. One of the most salient is the frequency and intervals of
vaccine administration. In this study, we assessed the vaccine administration modality for a …

Biotinylated streptavidin surface coating improves the efficacy of a PLGA microparticle-based cancer vaccine

BP Gross, K Chitphet, A Wongrakpanich… - Bioconjugate …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an immune-enriched subset of breast cancer that
has recently demonstrated clinical responsiveness to combinatorial immunotherapy …

Pentaerythritol-based lipid A bolsters the antitumor efficacy of a polyanhydride particle-based cancer vaccine

EI Wafa, SM Geary, KA Ross, JT Goodman… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The primary objective of this study was to enhance the antitumor efficacy of a model cancer
vaccine through co-delivery of pentaerythritol lipid A (PELA), an immunological adjuvant …

Poly (diaminosulfide) microparticle-based vaccine for delivery of leptospiral antigens

EI Wafa, JH Wilson-Welder, RL Hornsby… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Leptospirosis is a debilitating infectious disease that detrimentally affects both animals and
humans; therefore, disease prevention has become a high priority to avoid high incidence …

[PDF][PDF] Polymeric Particles as Cancer Vaccine Vectors

AK Salem - researchgate.net
Vaccines have been successful at preventing a range of diseases including diphtheria,
polio, whooping cough, measles and tetanus; whereby incidences of such diseases are now …