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Meta-Targeting

Macro-Nanomedicine to Treat Metastatic Cancer
Funder: European CommissionProject code: 864121 Call for proposal: ERC-2019-COG
Funded under: H2020 | ERC | ERC-COG Overall Budget: 1,979,380 EURFunder Contribution: 1,979,380 EUR
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Meta-Targeting

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Metastatic cancer is a complex and highly heterogenous disease, which is very difficult to treat. The aim of the Meta-Targeting project is to establish a holistic, rational and realistic nanomedicine-based approach to improve the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. Concrete objectives are: (1) the development of polymeric micelles which can be efficiently and stably co-loaded with three different drugs and with an imaging agent; (2) the use of physical and pharmacological means to modulate the vasculature and microenvironment in tumors and metastases; (3) the identification of imaging- and biopsy-based biomarkers for patient selection; (4) the incorporation of drugs to overcome cellular and microenvironmental multidrug resistance; and (5) the implementation of multifunctional micelles to enhance the efficacy of immunotherapy. It is envisaged that micelles loaded with in-house developed doxorubicin prodrugs are able to induce immunogenic cell death in tumors and metastases without causing systemic immunodepression, that co-loading with the angiotensin receptor inhibitor losartan helps to prime tumors and metastases for improved delivery (of micelles, immunomodulatory antibodies and T cells), and that co-loading with the P-glycoprotein inhibitor tariquidar assists in inducing immunogenic cell death, while avoiding typical anti-Pgp side effects, such as neurotoxicity. Physical priming with ultrasound and microbubbles will promote the delivery of micelles, antibodies and T cells to and into primary tumors. Imaging- and biopsy-based biomarkers are needed to allow for patient stratification, which is critically important to improve the clinical translation of cancer nanomedicines. The outcomes of the different project lines in Meta-Targeting will - alone and especially together - be truly transformative: they will contribute to scientific and clinical progress in nanomedicine, in tumor-targeted drug delivery, in immunotherapy, and in the treatment of metastatic cancer.

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