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Overview

Twan Lammers is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics in medicine, engineering, and materials science with a focus on biomedical engineering, biomaterials, molecular biology, materials chemistry, and oncology.

Their main areas of study include nanoparticle-based drug delivery, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, ultrasound and hyperthermia applications, photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging, RNA interference and gene delivery, immunotherapy and immune responses, and gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Twan Lammers include:

  • Fabian Kießling
  • Roger M. Pallares
  • Yang Shi
  • Alexandros Marios Sofias
  • Josbert M. Metselaar

Lammers has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most recurrent journals where work appears are:

  • Journal of Controlled Release
  • Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
  • Advanced Materials
  • Drug Delivery and Translational Research
  • Advanced Science

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Lammers include:

  • "The EPR effect and beyond: Strategies to improve tumor targeting and cancer nanomedicine treatment efficacy" (2020) published in Theranostics
  • "Toxicity of metal-organic framework nanoparticles: from essential analyses to potential applications" (2022) published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Cancer nanomedicine" (2022) published in Nature Reviews Cancer
  • "Challenges in nanomedicine clinical translation" (2020) published in Drug Delivery and Translational Research
  • "Iron metabolism: pathophysiology and pharmacology" (2021) published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

The body of work bridges multiple scientific disciplines related to materials and life sciences, emphasizing the development and clinical translation of nanomedicine technologies.

Best Publications

  • Drug targeting to tumors: Principles, pitfalls and (pre-) clinical progress

    Twan Gerardus Gertudis Maria Lammers;F. Kiessling;W.E. Hennink;Gerrit Storm;Gerrit Storm

  • Tumor targeting via EPR: Strategies to enhance patient responses

    Susanne K. Golombek;Jan Niklas May;Benjamin Theek;Lia Appold

  • Challenges and strategies in anti-cancer nanomedicine development: An industry perspective ☆

    Jennifer I. Hare;Twan Lammers;Marianne B. Ashford;Sanyogitta Puri

  • Smart cancer nanomedicine

    Roy van der Meel;Einar Sulheim;Einar Sulheim;Yang Shi;Fabian Kiessling

  • Iron oxide nanoparticles: Diagnostic, therapeutic and theranostic applications.

    Seyed Mohammadali Dadfar;Karolin Roemhild;Natascha I. Drude;Saskia von Stillfried

  • The EPR effect and beyond: Strategies to improve tumor targeting and cancer nanomedicine treatment efficacy.

    Yang Shi;Roy van der Meel;Xiaoyuan Chen;Twan Lammers;Twan Lammers;Twan Lammers

  • Tumour-targeted nanomedicines: principles and practice

    T.G.G.M. Lammers;W.E. Hennink;G. Storm

  • Theranostic nanomedicine.

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  • PLGA-Based Nanoparticles in Cancer Treatment.

    Sima Rezvantalab;Natascha Ingrid Drude;Mostafa Keshavarz Moraveji;Nihan Güvener

  • Core-crosslinked polymeric micelles: principles, preparation, biomedical applications and clinical translation

    Marina Talelli;Matthias Barz;Cristianne J.F. Rijcken;Fabian Kiessling

  • Applications of nanoparticles for diagnosis and therapy of cancer

    S. Baetke;Twan Gerardus Gertudis Maria Lammers;F. Kiessling

  • Noninvasive Imaging of Nanomedicines and Nanotheranostics : Principles, Progress, and Prospects

    Sijumon Kunjachan;Josef Ehling;Gert Storm;Fabian Kiessling

  • Nanotheranostics and image-guided drug delivery: current concepts and future directions.

    Twan Lammers;Fabian Kiessling;Wim E Hennink;Gert Storm

  • Cancer nanomedicine

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  • Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Nanotechnology for Precision Cancer Medicine

    Omer Adir;Maria Poley;Gal Chen;Sahar Froim

  • Specific targeting of tumor angiogenesis by RGD-conjugated ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide particles using a clinical 1.5-T magnetic resonance scanner

    Chunfu Zhang;Manfred Jugold;Eva C. Woenne;Twan Lammers

  • Combining Nanomedicine and Immunotherapy

    Yang Shi;Twan Lammers;Twan Lammers;Twan Lammers

  • Recent progress in nanomedicine: therapeutic, diagnostic and theranostic applications

    L.Y. Rizzo;B. Theek;Gerrit Storm;Gerrit Storm;F. Kiessling

  • Targeting iron metabolism in drug discovery and delivery

    Bart J. Crielaard;Twan Lammers;Stefano Rivella

  • Ultrasound Microbubbles for Molecular Diagnosis, Therapy, and Theranostics

    F. Kiessling;S. Fokong;P. Koczera;W. Lederle

  • Passive versus active tumor targeting using RGD- and NGR-modified polymeric nanomedicines

    Sijumon Kunjachan;Robert Pola;Felix Gremse;Benjamin Theek

  • Simultaneous delivery of doxorubicin and gemcitabine to tumors in vivo using prototypic polymeric drug carriers

    Twan Lammers;Twan Lammers;Vladimir Subr;Karel Ulbrich;Peter Peschke

  • CCL2-dependent infiltrating macrophages promote angiogenesis in progressive liver fibrosis

    Josef Ehling;Matthias Bartneck;Xiao Wei;Felix Gremse

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabian Kiessling
Fabian Kiessling RWTH Aachen University
Gert Storm
Gert Storm Utrecht University
Wim E. Hennink
Wim E. Hennink Utrecht University
Frank Tacke
Frank Tacke Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christian Trautwein
Christian Trautwein RWTH Aachen University
Karel Ulbrich
Karel Ulbrich Czech Academy of Sciences
Raymond M. Schiffelers
Raymond M. Schiffelers Utrecht University
Matthias Barz
Matthias Barz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Peter Boor
Peter Boor RWTH Aachen University
Cornelus F. van Nostrum
Cornelus F. van Nostrum Utrecht University

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