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ReviewAnnual review of biomedical engineering2025

Microfabricated Organ-Specific Models of Tumor Microenvironments.

Jeong Min Oh, Yongkuk Park, Jungwoo Lee, Keyue Shen

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Review in Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Cancer: From a Genetic Disorder to a Systemic Disease.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jeong Min OhAlfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA; email: keyue.shen@usc.edu.
Yongkuk ParkDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; email: jungwoo@umass.edu.
Jungwoo LeeDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; email: jungwoo@umass.edu.
Keyue ShenAlfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA; email: keyue.shen@usc.edu.

Funding

(PQ5) Microenvironmental Regulation of Mitochondrial Heterogeneity in Cancer MetastasisR01CA220012 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SHEN, KEYUE · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Implantable pre-metastatic niche to elucidate the impact of chemotherapy-induced metastatic relapseR01CA237171 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI LEE, JUNGWOO · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
Develop and validate demineralized bone paper-based human bone metabolic and senolytic assaysR33CA291301 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI Jungwoo Lee · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA220012NCI NIH HHS R01 CA237171NCI NIH HHS R33 CA291301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the advances in detection, diagnosis, and treatments, cancer remains a lethal disease, claiming the lives of more than 600,000 people in the United States alone in 2024. To accelerate the development of new therapeutic strategies with improved responses, significant efforts have been made to develop microfabricated in vitro models of tumor microenvironments (TMEs) that address the limitations of animal-based cancer models. These models incorporate several advanced tissue engineering techniques to better reflect the organ- and patient-specific TMEs. Additionally, microfabricated models integrated with next-generation single-cell omics technologies provide unprecedented insights into patient's cellular and molecular heterogeneity and complexity. This review provides an overview of the recent understanding of cancer development and outlines the key TME elements that can be captured in microfabricated models to enhance their physiological relevance. We highlight the recent advances in microfabricated cancer models that reflect the unique characteristics of their organs of origin or sites of dissemination.

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Microphysiological SystemsNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCell Culture TechniquesCell Line, TumorExtracellular MatrixHumansMicrotechnologyOrgan Specificitycarcinogenesismetastasismicrofabricated modelmicrophysiological systemsMPSTMEtumor microenvironment

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PMID40310890
PMCPMC12184098

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