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ReviewAdvanced healthcare materials2025

Biomaterial-Based Therapeutic Delivery of Immune Cells.

Ameya A Dravid, Ankur Singh, Andrés J García

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Review in Advanced healthcare materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ameya A DravidWoodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Ankur SinghWoodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Andrés J GarcíaWoodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6602-2518

Funding

Hydrogel-based Organoids of African-American Lymphomas to Study B Cell Receptor Pathway InhibitorsR01CA266052 · NCI · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI JEAN L KOFF, Ankur Singh · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
Lymphoid Experimental Therapeutics Platform to Study Cooperative Signaling inHuman LymphomasR01CA238745 · NCI · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SINGH, ANKUR · 2020 to 2024
$2.2M
Dysregulated mechanoimmunology of epigenetics-driven lymphomasU01CA280984 · NCI · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Ankur Singh, Cheng Zhu · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS 1R01CA266052-01A1NCI NIH HHS 5R01CA238745-03NCI NIH HHS 5U01 CA280984-01NCI NIH HHS R01 CA238745NCI NIH HHS R01 CA266052NCI NIH HHS U01 CA280984Wellcome LeapWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune cell therapy (ICT) is a transformative approach used to treat a wide range of diseases including type 1 diabetes, sickle cell disease, disorders of the hematopoietic system, and certain forms of cancers. Despite excellent clinical successes, the scope of adoptively transferred immune cells is limited because of toxicities like cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity in patients. Furthermore, reports suggest that such treatment can impact major organ systems including cardiac, renal, pulmonary, and hepatic systems in the long term. Additionally, adoptively transferred immune cells cannot achieve significant penetration into solid tissues, thus limiting their therapeutic potential. Recent studies suggest that biomaterial-assisted delivery of immune cells can address these challenges by reducing toxicity, improving localization, and maintaining desired phenotypes to eventually regain tissue function. In this review, recent efforts in the field of biomaterial-based immune cell delivery for the treatment of diseases, their pros and cons, and where these approaches stand in terms of clinical treatment are highlighted.

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Biocompatible MaterialsCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyAnimalsHumansBiocompatible Materialsbiomaterialscancerscell therapiesdiabeteshydrogelsinflammatory diseases

Identifiers

PMID38813869
PMCPMC11607182

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