Yuchen Wang

Dr. Yuchen Wang


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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8 September 2022 in Advanced Science
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Journal Article
Open access
YLYang Liu
Yang Liu
YWYuchen Wang
Yuchen Wang
CWChao Wang
Chao Wang
TDTiejun Dong
Tiejun Dong
HXHaiheng Xu
Haiheng Xu
JWJinhui Wu
Jinhui Wu
The targeted transport of nanomedicines is often impeded by various biological events in the body. Viruses can hijack host cells and utilize intracellular transcription and translation biological events to achieve their replication. Inspired by this, a strategy to hijack endogenous products of biological events to assemble into intracellular functional nanoparticles is established. It has been shown that, following tumor vessel destruction therapy, injected cell permeable small molecule drugs bisphosphonate can hijack the hemorrhagic product iron and self‐assemble into peroxidase‐like nanoparticles within tumor‐infiltrating macrophages. Unlike free drugs, the generated intercellular nanoparticles can specifically stress mitochondria, resulting in immune activation of macrophages in vitro and polarizing tumor‐associated macrophages (TAMs) from immunosuppressive to tumoricidal and increasing the recruitment of T cells deep within tumor. The hijacking self‐assembly strategy significantly inhibits tumor growth compared with the treatment of vascular‐disrupting agents alone. Using bisphosphonate to hijack the metabolite associated with hemorrhage, iron, to fabricate functional nanoparticles within specific cells, which may open up new nanotechnology for drug delivery and small molecular drug development.