Soumen Saha

Journal Article Small Science · November 1, 2024 Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane), an albumin-bound solvent-free paclitaxel (PTX) formulation that takes advantage of the endogenous albumin transport pathway, is the current gold standard for treatment of solid tumors with PTX. However, nab-paclitaxel has several ... Full text Cite

In vivo targeting of a tumor-antigen encoded DNA vaccine to dendritic cells in combination with tumor-selective chemotherapy eradicates established mouse melanoma.

Journal Article Biomaterials science · September 2023 Despite remarkable progress during the past decade, eradication of established tumors by targeted cancer therapy and cancer immunotherapy remains an uphill task. Herein, we report on a combination approach for eradicating established mouse melanoma. Our ap ... Full text Cite

Data from Tumor Subtype Determines Therapeutic Response to Chimeric Polypeptide Nanoparticle–based Chemotherapy in Pten-deleted Mouse Models of Sarcoma

Other · March 31, 2023 <div>AbstractPurpose:Nanoparticle-encapsulated drug formulations can improve responses to conventional chemotherapy by increasing drug retention within the tumor and by promoting a more effective antitumor immune response than free d ... Full text Cite

Supplementary Figures from Tumor Subtype Determines Therapeutic Response to Chimeric Polypeptide Nanoparticle–based Chemotherapy in Pten-deleted Mouse Models of Sarcoma

Other · March 31, 2023 Supplementary Figures ... Full text Cite

Data from Tumor Subtype Determines Therapeutic Response to Chimeric Polypeptide Nanoparticle–based Chemotherapy in Pten-deleted Mouse Models of Sarcoma

Supplementary Figures from Tumor Subtype Determines Therapeutic Response to Chimeric Polypeptide Nanoparticle–based Chemotherapy in Pten-deleted Mouse Models of Sarcoma

Other · March 31, 2023 Supplementary Figures ... Full text Cite

Brachytherapy via a depot of biopolymer-bound 131I synergizes with nanoparticle paclitaxel in therapy-resistant pancreatic tumours.

Journal Article Nat Biomed Eng · October 2022 Locally advanced pancreatic tumours are highly resistant to conventional radiochemotherapy. Here we show that such resistance can be surmounted by an injectable depot of thermally responsive elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) conjugated with iodine-131 radionu ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Genetically Engineered Nanoparticles of Asymmetric Triblock Polypeptide with a Platinum(IV) Cargo Outperforms a Platinum(II) Analog and Free Drug in a Murine Cancer Model.

Journal Article Nano Lett · July 27, 2022 The development of platinum(Pt)-drugs for cancer therapy has stalled, as no new Pt-drugs have been approved in over a decade. Packaging small molecule drugs into nanoparticles is a way to enhance their therapeutic efficacy. To date, there has been no direc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genetically encoded elastin-like polypeptide nanoparticles for drug delivery.

Journal Article Current opinion in biotechnology · April 2022 Small molecule drugs suffer from poor in vivo half-life, rapid degradation, and systemic off-target toxicity. To address these issues, researchers have developed nanoparticles that significantly enhance the delivery of many drugs while reducing their toxic ... Full text Cite

A Nanoparticle’s Journey to the Tumor: Strategies to Overcome First-Pass Metabolism and Their Limitations

Journal Article Cancers · April 1, 2022 Nanomedicines represent the cutting edge of today’s cancer therapeutics. Seminal research decades ago has begun to pay dividends in the clinic, allowing for the delivery of cancer drugs with enhanced systemic circulation while also minimizing off-target to ... Full text Cite

Novel Suberoylanilide Hydroxamic Acid Analogs Inhibit Angiogenesis and Induce Apoptosis in Breast Cancer Cells.

Journal Article Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry · January 2022 BackgroundHistone deacetylases (HDACs) are the enzymes that catalyze the removal of the acetyl group from lysine residues and regulate several biological processes. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) is a notable HDAC inhibitor that exhibited ... Full text Cite

Tumor Subtype Determines Therapeutic Response to Chimeric Polypeptide Nanoparticle-based Chemotherapy in Pten-deleted Mouse Models of Sarcoma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · September 15, 2020 PURPOSE: Nanoparticle-encapsulated drug formulations can improve responses to conventional chemotherapy by increasing drug retention within the tumor and by promoting a more effective antitumor immune response than free drug. New drug delivery modalities a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Amphetamine decorated cationic lipid nanoparticles cross the blood-brain barrier: therapeutic promise for combating glioblastoma.

Journal Article Journal of materials chemistry. B · May 2020 Combating brain tumors (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) is a formidable challenge because of the existence of blood-brain barrier (BBB), a tight cellular junction that separates the central nervous system (CNS) and systemic circulation. Such a selectively ... Full text Cite

Genetically Encoded Stealth Nanoparticles of a Zwitterionic Polypeptide-Paclitaxel Conjugate Have a Wider Therapeutic Window than Abraxane in Multiple Tumor Models.

Journal Article Nano Lett · April 8, 2020 Small-molecule therapeutics demonstrate suboptimal pharmacokinetics and bioavailability due to their hydrophobicity and size. One way to overcome these limitations-and improve their efficacy-is to use "stealth" macromolecular carriers that evade uptake by ... Full text Link to item Cite

Engineering the Architecture of Elastin-Like Polypeptides: From Unimers to Hierarchical Self-Assembly.

Journal Article Advanced therapeutics · March 2020 Well-defined tunable nanostructures formed through the hierarchical self-assembly of peptide building blocks have drawn significant attention due to their potential applications in biomedical science. Artificial protein polymers derived from elastin-like p ... Full text Cite

Recent trends in protein and peptide-based biomaterials for advanced drug delivery.

Journal Article Advanced drug delivery reviews · January 2020 Engineering protein and peptide-based materials for drug delivery applications has gained momentum due to their biochemical and biophysical properties over synthetic materials, including biocompatibility, ease of synthesis and purification, tunability, sca ... Full text Cite

Heuristics for the Optimal Presentation of Bioactive Peptides on Polypeptide Micelles.

Journal Article Nano letters · November 2019 Bioactive peptides describe a very large group of compounds with diverse functions and wide applications, and their multivalent display by nanoparticles can maximize their activities. However, the lack of a universal nanoparticle platform and design rules ... Full text Cite

Conjugate of Doxorubicin to Albumin-Binding Peptide Outperforms Aldoxorubicin.

Journal Article Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · March 2019 Short circulation time and off-target toxicity are the main challenges faced by small-molecule chemotherapeutics. To overcome these shortcomings, an albumin-binding peptide conjugate of chemotherapeutics is developed that binds specifically to endogenous a ... Full text Cite

Combating Established Mouse Glioblastoma through Nicotinylated-Liposomes-Mediated Targeted Chemotherapy in Combination with Dendritic-Cell-Based Genetic Immunization

Journal Article Advanced Biosystems · February 1, 2017 Accomplishing significantly enhanced overall survivability (OS) remains a formidable challenge in combating glioblastoma. The presence of the blood–brain barrier acts as the major biological barrier in delivering drugs to the brain. Herein, liposomal formu ... Full text Cite

Systemic Codelivery of a Homoserine Derived Ceramide Analogue and Curcumin to Tumor Vasculature Inhibits Mouse Tumor Growth.

Journal Article Molecular pharmaceutics · February 2016 Prior studies reported significant anticancer activities of ceramides. However, anticancer activities of homoserine based ceramides have not been tested. With a view to compare the anticancer activity of ceramides and homoceramides, in the present study, w ... Full text Cite

Simultaneous delivery of doxorubicin and curcumin encapsulated in liposomes of pegylated RGDK-lipopeptide to tumor vasculature.

Journal Article Biomaterials · February 2014 Curcumin, because of its distinguishing ability to inhibit activation of transcription factor linked to chemoresistance and drug transporters, is now being co-administered with various potent anti-cancer drugs. In the present study, we report on such poten ... Full text Cite

Tumor growth inhibition through targeting liposomally bound curcumin to tumor vasculature.

Journal Article Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · December 2013 Increasing number of Phase I/II clinical studies have demonstrated clinical potential of curcumin for treatment of various types of human cancers. Despite significant anti-tumor efficacies and bio-safety profiles of curcumin, poor systemic bioavailability ... Full text Cite