Insights into Metabolism, Diagnostics and Therapeutics of Cancer and Tumor Microenvironment by NMR Spectroscopy

Dear Colleagues,

Cancer is driven largely by an altered metabolism to survive, proliferate, and metastasize. Altered metabolism is one of the hallmarks of cancer and has been an active area to explore for early diagnosis biomarkers and treatment targets. Understanding the role of metabolism in cancer and the related tumor microenvironment is crucial for controlling the disease and developing next-generation diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic agents. Therefore, the timing is right to showcase the discoveries made and highlight the ongoing and upcoming research related to NMR-based cancer metabolomics in a single Special Issue of the journal Metabolites. This Special Issue has been designed to bring together original research articles, review articles, and communications related to cancer metabolism interrogated by NMR spectroscopy. The Special Issue will invite articles both on the recent technical developments of NMR spectroscopy, such as pulse sequence design, instrumentation, electronics and software to improve the sensitivity, specificity, resolution, data acquisition, quantification and analysis applicable to cancer metabolomics and metabolic imaging, as well as the applications of NMR spectroscopy in identifying biomarkers for the diagnosis, therapeutic intervention of cancer, and discovering metabolic targets for cancer therapy.

Dr. Shivanand M. Pudakalakatti
Dr. Pratip K. Bhattacharya
Guest Editors

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