Cancer-on-a-Chip: Applications and Challenges
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 December 2021) | Viewed by 54536
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Interests: nanotechnology; nanomedicine; biosensors; drug delivery; hyperthermia; microfluidic devices
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Interests: lab-on-a-chip; organ-on-a-chip; microsensors and mi-croactuators; integrated optics; microelectronics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Cancer-on-a-chip platforms arise from the convergence of microfabrication and tissue engineering with the potentiality to replicate key aspects of cancer and identify molecular, cellular and biophysical features of human cancer progression. Additionally, it can address the current limitation of animal models and cells. Due to these features, organs-on-a-chip platforms are emerging as one of the fastest growing research areas, promising to become a multi-billion dollars industry. Although the potentiality to enhance personalized medicine, understand drug effects and improve preclinical safety and efficacy of new biomaterials, this technology is still in its infancy and many challenges need to be suppressed. In this sense, this Special Issue on Cancer-on-a-chip: applications and challenges, seeks to gather the ultimate breakthroughs and innovative development techniques done in this multidisciplinary area, aiming to an end-use of this technology. In this Special Issue, we invite contributions (original research papers, review articles, and short communications) that focus on the latest advances and challenges in cancer-on-a-chip platforms and related research areas applied to the development of this field.
Dr. Raquel Rodrigues
Prof. Graça Minas
Prof. Stefan Krauss
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cancer-on-a-chip
- Organ-on-a-chip
- Microfluidics
- Nanomedicine
- Drug delivery
- Personalized medicine
- Biofabrication
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