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Cancer Vaccines: Research and Applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Designing cancer vaccines has been at the forefront of cancer research for over 2 decades. In particular delivery methods used to stimulate effective and long lasting immune responses has been the major focus. This special issue will focus on delivery methods used for cancer vaccines and their outcomes in preclinical studies and clinical trials.
Prof. Dr. Vasso Apostolopoulos
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Cancers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- Cancer vaccines
- Delivery methods
- Dendritic cells
- Particulate vaccines
- Adjuvants
- Peptide based vaccines
- DNA vaccines
- T cell responses
- Clinical outcomes
- Clinical trials
- Antigen processing
- Antigen presentation
- MHC-T cell interaction
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