Anticancer Drugs: Recent Advances and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Technical advances in cell culture, robotics, computational biology, and development of reporter systems have transformed the field of drug discovery, enabling improved screening approaches for novel anticancer treatments. However, the translation of anticancer compounds identified in vitro into clinically active drugs has a limited success rate. The objective of the current Special Issue is to highlight success stories and/or novel processes of phenotype-based high-throughput drug screening in targeting malignant cells. Submission of studies describing computational approaches linking transcriptomic profiling of cancers with existing pharmaceutical compounds to accelerate drug repurposing or the use of CRISPR-based screening for the discovery of mechanisms of drug resistance and sensitization are strongly encouraged.

Dr. Moutih Rafei
Dr. Sebastien Talbot
Guest Editors

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• multi-omics
• high-throughput screening
• anticancer compounds
• CRISPR
• drug repurposing
• cancer