Cancer Biomarkers and Metabolic Vulnerabilities
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 1866
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cancer biology; translational biochemistry; preclinical models; cancer metabolism; repeat elements; lung cancer; patient-derived organoids; circulating tumor cells
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the precision oncology era, novel and promising biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets are rapidly emerging thanks to unprecedented technological advances and are being sustained through the improvement of existing and new liquid biopsy approaches. A deeper knowledge of cancer cell behaviors and metabolic assets could lead to the identification of key and often undiscovered molecular players that are expected to offer tremendous benefits in clinical care.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, “Cancer Biomarkers and Metabolic Vulnerabilities”, which will be focused on the molecular and biochemical circuits exploited by cancer cells, investigating the key molecules that could be exploited as diagnostic, prognostic, stratification, and progression/response biomarkers or as targets of therapeutic relevance.
Within this framework, this Special Issue will collect the latest findings and breakthroughs in the fields of cancer biochemistry and the discovery of molecular and cellular biomarkers, as well as the characterization of novel potential therapeutic targets, with a particular emphasis on metabolic nodes. Original research articles and reviews, including methodological and preclinical papers, are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Francesca Bersani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer metabolism
- cancer biomarkers
- liquid biopsy
- therapeutic targets
- metabolic rewiring
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