Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Biomaterial-based scaffold for in situ chemo-immunotherapy to treat poorly immunogenic tumors

  • Hua Wang,
  • Alexander J. Najibi,
  • Miguel C. Sobral,
  • Bo Ri Seo,
  • Jun Yong Lee,
  • David Wu,
  • Aileen Weiwei Li,
  • Catia S. Verbeke,
  • David J. Mooney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19540-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment impairs immunotherapy in poorly immunogenic cancer. Here, the authors load an alginate gel with GM-CSF, CpG oligonucleotides and doxorubicin-iRGD to promote immunogenic death of tumour cells and improve immunotherapy efficacy in triple negative breast cancer models.