Enabling individualized therapy through nanotechnology

…, E Blanco, RE Serda, A Grattoni, A Ziemys… - Pharmacological …, 2010 - Elsevier
Individualized medicine is the healthcare strategy that rebukes the idiomatic dogma of ‘losing
sight of the forest for the trees’. We are entering a new era of healthcare where it is no …

[HTML][HTML] Transport barriers and oncophysics in cancer treatment

S Nizzero, A Ziemys, M Ferrari - Trends in cancer, 2018 - cell.com
Transport processes in cancer are the focus of transport oncophysics (TOP). In the TOP
approach, the sequential negotiation of transport barriers is critical to both drug delivery and …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperative, nanoparticle-enabled thermal therapy of breast cancer

H Shen, J You, G Zhang, A Ziemys, Q Li… - Advanced healthcare …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite decades of effort on research and drug development for cancer treatment, cancer still
remains one of the major causes of human deaths in the world [1]. Human cancers consist …

[HTML][HTML] VEGFR2 activity on myeloid cells mediates immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment

Y Zhang, H Huang, M Coleman, A Ziemys, P Gopal… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, is induced by vascular endothelial growth factor–A (hereafter
VEGF). As a result, anti-VEGF therapy is commonly used for cancer treatment. Recent …

Engineering multi-stage nanovectors for controlled degradation and tunable release kinetics

JO Martinez, C Chiappini, A Ziemys, AM Faust, M Kojic… - Biomaterials, 2013 - Elsevier
Nanovectors hold substantial promise in abating the off-target effects of therapeutics by
providing a means to selectively accumulate payloads at the target lesion, resulting in an …

Physicochemical properties affect the synthesis, controlled delivery, degradation and pharmacokinetics of inorganic nanoporous materials

IK Yazdi, A Ziemys, M Evangelopoulos… - …, 2015 - Future Medicine
Controlling size, shape and uniformity of porous constructs remains a major focus of the
development of porous materials. Over the past two decades, we have seen significant …

Improved multiplex immunohistochemistry for immune microenvironment evaluation of mouse formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues

…, H Huang, LN Dahal, N Burton, A Ziemys… - The Journal of …, 2019 - journals.aai.org
Immune profiling of tissue through multiplex immunohistochemistry is important for the
investigation of immune cell dynamics, and it can contribute to disease prognosis and evaluation …

Capillary-wall collagen as a biophysical marker of nanotherapeutic permeability into the tumor microenvironment

…, M Kojic, M Milosevic, T Tanei, M Ferrari, A Ziemys - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
The capillary wall is the chief barrier to tissue entry of therapeutic nanoparticles, thereby
dictating their efficacy. Collagen fibers are an important component of capillary walls, affecting …

Hierarchical modeling of diffusive transport through nanochannels by coupling molecular dynamics with finite element method

A Ziemys, M Kojic, M Milosevic, N Kojic… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present a successful hierarchical modeling approach which accounts for interface
effects on diffusivity, ignored in classical continuum theories. A molecular dynamics derived …

A robust nanofluidic membrane with tunable zero-order release for implantable dose specific drug delivery

D Fine, A Grattoni, S Hosali, A Ziemys, E De Rosa… - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This manuscript demonstrates a mechanically robust implantable nanofluidic membrane
capable of tunable long-term zero-order release of therapeutic agents in ranges relevant for …