[HTML][HTML] Hydrogel-enabled, local administration and combinatorial delivery of immunotherapies for cancer treatment

A Erfani, AE Diaz, PS Doyle - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Throughout the last decade, interventions to engineer the immune system called
immunotherapy have revolutionized the fields of oncology and autoimmune disease …

Synthetic living materials in cancer biology

SR Peyton, LW Chow, SD Finley, ANF Versypt… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Living materials, which are made either of or by living cells, or are synthetic materials with
programmable elements catered to cells, are environmentally responsive and can self …

COVID-19 virtual patient cohort suggests immune mechanisms driving disease outcomes

AL Jenner, RA Aogo, S Alfonso, V Crowe… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
To understand the diversity of immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and distinguish features
that predispose individuals to severe COVID-19, we developed a mechanistic, within-host …

Agent-based computational modeling of glioblastoma predicts that stromal density is central to oncolytic virus efficacy

AL Jenner, M Smalley, D Goldman, WF Goins… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging cancer immunotherapy. Despite notable successes in
the treatment of some tumors, OV therapy for central nervous system cancers has failed to …

Development of a new hyaluronic acid based redox-responsive nanohydrogel for the encapsulation of oncolytic viruses for cancer immunotherapy

S Deng, A Iscaro, G Zambito, Y Mijiti, M Minicucci… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging as promising and potential anti-cancer therapeutic
agents, not only able to kill cancer cells directly by selective intracellular viral replication, but …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered cell-based therapies in ex vivo ready-made CellDex capsules have therapeutic efficacy in solid tumors

TA Van Schaik, L Moreno-Lama, TA Farzani… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Encapsulated cell-based therapies for solid tumors have shown promising results in pre-
clinical settings. However, the inability to culture encapsulated therapeutic cells prior to their …

Leveraging computational modeling to understand infectious diseases

AL Jenner, RA Aogo, CL Davis, AM Smith… - Current Pathobiology …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Computational and mathematical modeling have become a
critical part of understanding in-host infectious disease dynamics and predicting effective …

Progress in the application of hydrogels in immunotherapy of gastrointestinal tumors

H Zheng, M Li, L Wu, W Liu, Y Liu, J Gao, Z Lu - Drug Delivery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Gastrointestinal tumors are the most common cancers with the highest morbidity and
mortality worldwide. Surgery accompanied by chemotherapy, radiotherapy and targeted …

Calibration of agent based models for monophasic and biphasic tumour growth using approximate Bayesian computation

X Wang, AL Jenner, R Salomone, DJ Warne… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2024 - Springer
Agent-based models (ABMs) are readily used to capture the stochasticity in tumour
evolution; however, these models are often challenging to validate with experimental …

Translational approaches to treating dynamical diseases through in silico clinical trials

S Alfonso, AL Jenner, M Craig - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The primary goal of drug developers is to establish efficient and effective therapeutic
protocols. Multifactorial pathologies, including dynamical diseases and complex disorders …