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25 Citations
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Biobanked Glioblastoma Patient-Derived Organoids as a Precision Medicine Model to Study Inhibition of Invasion

  • Emilie Darrigues,
  • Edward H. Zhao,
  • Annick De Loose,
  • Madison P. Lee and ,
  • Michael J. Borrelli,
  • Robert L. Eoff,
  • Deni S. Galileo,
  • Narsimha R. Penthala,
  • Peter A. Crooks and
  • Analiz Rodriguez
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

3 October 2021

Glioblastoma (GBM) is highly resistant to treatment and invasion into the surrounding brain is a cancer hallmark that leads to recurrence despite surgical resection. With the emergence of precision medicine, patient-derived 3D systems are considered...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Neuro-Oncology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
11,541 Views
16 Pages

Patient-Derived Tumor Organoids for Guidance of Personalized Drug Therapies in Recurrent Glioblastoma

  • Miriam Ratliff,
  • Hichul Kim,
  • Hao Qi,
  • Minsung Kim and ,
  • Bosung Ku,
  • Daniel Dominguez Azorin,
  • David Hausmann,
  • Rajiv K. Khajuria,
  • Areeba Patel and
  • Yong-Jun Kwon
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

An obstacle to effective uniform treatment of glioblastoma, especially at recurrence, is genetic and cellular intertumoral heterogeneity. Hence, personalized strategies are necessary, as are means to stratify potential targeted therapies in a clinica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Trends in Biomaterials and Devices for Cells and Tissues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
558 Views
17 Pages

Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells Expressing CD::UPRT and TRAIL Exhibit Potent Anti-Tumor Effects in Glioblastoma Patient-Derived Organoids

  • Dokyeong Kim,
  • Minyoung Park,
  • Junseong Park,
  • Soon A Park and ,
  • Stephen Ahn and
  • Yeun-Jun Chung
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 September 2026

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly aggressive brain tumor with limited therapeutic options due to its invasive nature, therapeutic resistance, and the challenge of drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neuro-Oncological Advances in Stem Cell Research: A New Era in Brain Tumor Therapy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
194 Views
31 Pages

Advances in Glioblastoma Organoid Development and Applications in Personalised Therapy

  • Janith Wanigasekara,
  • Natalia Bednarz,
  • Daniela Boehm,
  • Paula Bourke and
  • Gemma K. Kinsella

26 October 2026

Glioblastoma (GBM) remains one of the most lethal primary brain malignancies. Current treatment protocols have modestly improved the survival rate, while recurrence remains high. Conventional two-dimensional (2D) cell lines and animal xenografts have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,781 Views
16 Pages

Use of Tissue Specimens from Stereotactic Biopsies for Patient-Derived GBM Organoid-Based Drug Testing

  • Amélie Wöllner,
  • Adrian Paul,
  • Maddalena Arquilla,
  • Junguo Cao and ,
  • Catharina Lotsch,
  • Gerhard Jungwirth,
  • Lena Jassowicz,
  • Andreas von Deimling,
  • Andreas W. Unterberg and
  • Christel Herold-Mende
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

12 May 2025

IDH-wildtype glioblastoma (GBM) represents the most common malignant form of brain tumor and is still incurable despite comprehensive therapeutic efforts. Due to tumor location and patient condition, open surgical resection of recurrent GBM is not al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Organoids as an Experimental Tool)
  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,496 Views
20 Pages

9 April 2025

Glioblastoma (GBM) is an exceedingly aggressive primary brain tumor defined by rapid growth, extensive infiltration, and resistance to standard therapies. A central factor driving these malignancies is the subpopulation of glioblastoma stem cells (GS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Pivotal Role of Tumor Stem Cells in Glioblastoma)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,660 Views
18 Pages

Characterization and Optimization of the Tumor Microenvironment in Patient-Derived Organotypic Slices and Organoid Models of Glioblastoma

  • Vera Nickl,
  • Juliana Eck,
  • Nicolas Goedert,
  • Julian Hübner and ,
  • Thomas Nerreter,
  • Carsten Hagemann,
  • Ralf-Ingo Ernestus,
  • Tim Schulz,
  • Robert Carl Nickl and
  • Camelia Maria Monoranu
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

10 May 2023

While glioblastoma (GBM) is still challenging to treat, novel immunotherapeutic approaches have shown promising effects in preclinical settings. However, their clinical breakthrough is hampered by complex interactions of GBM with the tumor microenvir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brain Tumor Microenvironment)
  • Review
  • Open Access
110 Citations
15,350 Views
19 Pages

Patient-Derived Glioma Models: From Patients to Dish to Animals

  • Cintia Carla da Hora,
  • Markus W. Schweiger,
  • Thomas Wurdinger and
  • Bakhos A. Tannous

30 September 2019

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and malignant primary brain tumor in adults associated with a poor survival. Current standard of care consists of surgical resection followed by radiation and chemotherapy. GBMs are highly heterogeneous, having a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Patient-Derived Cancer Models from Basic Study to Clinical Application)
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,515 Views
16 Pages

The Organoid Era Permits the Development of New Applications to Study Glioblastoma

  • Francesco Andreatta,
  • Giulia Beccaceci,
  • Nicolò Fortuna,
  • Martina Celotti and ,
  • Dario De Felice,
  • Marco Lorenzoni,
  • Veronica Foletto,
  • Sacha Genovesi,
  • Josep Rubert and
  • Alessandro Alaimo
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

9 November 2020

Glioblastoma (GB) is the most frequent and aggressive type of glioma. The lack of reliable GB models, together with its considerable clinical heterogeneity, has impaired a comprehensive investigation of the mechanisms that lead to tumorigenesis, canc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cancer Organoids in Basic Science and Translational Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
13,360 Views
27 Pages

A Drug Screening Pipeline Using 2D and 3D Patient-Derived In Vitro Models for Pre-Clinical Analysis of Therapy Response in Glioblastoma

  • Sakthi Lenin,
  • Elise Ponthier,
  • Kaitlin G. Scheer,
  • Erica C. F. Yeo and ,
  • Melinda N. Tea,
  • Lisa M. Ebert,
  • Mariana Oksdath Mansilla,
  • Santosh Poonnoose,
  • Ulrich Baumgartner and
  • Guillermo A. Gomez
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

Glioblastoma is one of the most common and lethal types of primary brain tumor. Despite aggressive treatment with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, tumor recurrence within 6–9 months is common. To overcome this, more effective therapies targeting cancer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Therapeutic Treatments to Target Glioblastoma Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Plasticity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,800 Views
15 Pages

Utility of the Cerebral Organoid Glioma ‘GLICO’ Model for Screening Applications

  • Freya R. Weth,
  • Lifeng Peng,
  • Erin Paterson,
  • Swee T. Tan and
  • Clint Gray

30 December 2022

Glioblastoma, a grade IV astrocytoma, is regarded as the most aggressive primary brain tumour with an overall median survival of 16.0 months following the standard treatment regimen of surgical resection, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Cancers: Glioblastoma II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,317 Views
19 Pages

A Functional Precision Medicine Pipeline Combines Comparative Transcriptomics and Tumor Organoid Modeling to Identify Bespoke Treatment Strategies for Glioblastoma

  • Megan R. Reed,
  • A. Geoffrey Lyle,
  • Annick De Loose,
  • Leena Maddukuri and ,
  • Katrina Learned,
  • Holly C. Beale,
  • Ellen T. Kephart,
  • Allison Cheney,
  • Anouk van den Bout and
  • Analiz Rodriguez
  • + 15 authors+ 10 authors

2 December 2021

Li Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a hereditary cancer predisposition syndrome caused by germline mutations in TP53. TP53 is the most common mutated gene in human cancer, occurring in 30–50% of glioblastomas (GBM). Here, we highlight a precision med...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Glioblastoma Cell: From Molecular Target to Innovative Therapy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
705 Views
34 Pages

Construction Strategies, Microenvironmental Modelling and Precision-Therapy Applications of Glioma Organoid Models

  • Songming Chen,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Luohuan Dai,
  • Yubin Kuang and ,
  • Haodi Yang,
  • Jia Gu,
  • Kang Peng,
  • Nian Jiang,
  • Hongwei Liu and
  • Xuejun Li
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

12 August 2026

Gliomas, and glioblastoma in particular, remain difficult to model because molecular heterogeneity, diffuse invasion, blood–brain and blood–tumour barrier effects, immune suppression and repeated therapeutic escape converge in the same di...

  • Review
  • Open Access
106 Citations
10,304 Views
26 Pages

Glioblastoma Microenvironment and Invasiveness: New Insights and Therapeutic Targets

  • José Ignacio Erices,
  • Carolina Bizama,
  • Ignacio Niechi,
  • Daniel Uribe and ,
  • Arnaldo Rosales,
  • Karen Fabres,
  • Giovanna Navarro-Martínez,
  • Ángelo Torres,
  • Rody San Martín and
  • Claudia Quezada-Monrás
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and malignant primary brain cancer in adults. Without treatment the mean patient survival is approximately 6 months, which can be extended to 15 months with the use of multimodal therapies. The low effectiveness...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Organoids: The New 3D-Frontier to Model Different Diseases In Vitro)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,313 Views
16 Pages

Glioblastoma-Derived Three-Dimensional Ex Vivo Models to Evaluate Effects and Efficacy of Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields)

  • Vera Nickl,
  • Ellina Schulz,
  • Ellaine Salvador,
  • Laureen Trautmann and ,
  • Leopold Diener,
  • Almuth F. Kessler,
  • Camelia M. Monoranu,
  • Faramarz Dehghani,
  • Ralf-Ingo Ernestus and
  • Carsten Hagemann
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

22 October 2022

Glioblastoma (GBM) displays a wide range of inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity contributing to therapeutic resistance and relapse. Although Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) are effective for the treatment of GBM, there is a lack of ex vivo models...

(This article belongs to the Section Clinical Research in Cancer)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,168 Views
22 Pages

Modeling Human Brain Tumors and the Microenvironment Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

  • Zahraa I. Khamis,
  • Drishty B. Sarker,
  • Yu Xue,
  • Nancy Al-Akkary and ,
  • Viviana D. James,
  • Changchun Zeng,
  • Yan Li and
  • Qing-Xiang Amy Sang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

16 February 2023

Brain cancer is a group of diverse and rapidly growing malignancies that originate in the central nervous system (CNS) and have a poor prognosis. The complexity of brain structure and function makes brain cancer modeling extremely difficult, limiting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Oncology in 2023)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
354 Views
26 Pages

15 October 2026

Patient-derived cancer organoids (PDOs) are increasingly used to investigate tumor biology, treatment response, and precision oncology, yet their correspondence to the tumors from which they originate is often summarized using global terms such as &l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,153 Views
22 Pages

A Murine Model of Glioblastoma Initiating Cells and Human Brain Organoid Xenograft for Photodynamic Therapy Testing

  • Alejandra Mosteiro,
  • Diouldé Diao,
  • Carmen Bedia,
  • Leire Pedrosa and ,
  • Gabriela Ailén Caballero,
  • Iban Aldecoa,
  • Mar Mallo,
  • Francesc Solé,
  • Ana Sevilla and
  • José Juan González Sánchez
  • + 11 authors+ 6 authors

12 September 2025

Glioblastoma (GB) is one of the most aggressive brain tumors, characterized by high infiltrative capacity that enables tumor cells to invade healthy brain tissue and evade complete surgical resection. This invasiveness contributes to resistance again...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Oncology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
158 Citations
12,783 Views
15 Pages

Immersion Bioprinting of Tumor Organoids in Multi-Well Plates for Increasing Chemotherapy Screening Throughput

  • Erin Maloney,
  • Casey Clark,
  • Hemamylammal Sivakumar,
  • KyungMin Yoo and ,
  • Julio Aleman,
  • Shiny A. P. Rajan,
  • Steven Forsythe,
  • Andrea Mazzocchi,
  • Adrian W. Laxton and
  • Aleksander Skardal
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

18 February 2020

The current drug development pipeline takes approximately fifteen years and $2.6 billion to get a new drug to market. Typically, drugs are tested on two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures and animal models to estimate their efficacy before reaching human...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Biology and Biomedicine)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,914 Views
43 Pages

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) remains the most aggressive and therapeutically intractable primary brain tumor, with many patients experiencing rapid relapse despite maximal surgical resection followed by standard chemoradiation. This persistent failu...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,714 Views
23 Pages

Neuroimmune Organoid Models Early Glioblastoma Establishment and the Invasive Niche

  • Nina Y. Yuan,
  • William D. Richards,
  • Kailyn T. Parham,
  • Kaylie Greuel and ,
  • Joshua A. Zimmermann,
  • Jack Shireman,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Mahua Dey and
  • Connie S. Lebakken
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly aggressive malignant brain tumor accounting for 15% of all brain tumors and 50% of all gliomas. The exact cause of GBM is not fully understood but risk factors include age, genetic mutations, exposure to ionizing radiat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Development to Degeneration: Advances in Stem Cell and Organoid Models of the Nervous System)
  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
11,189 Views
21 Pages

19 August 2020

Fifteen years after the establishment of the Stupp protocol as the standard of care to treat glioblastomas, no major clinical advances have been achieved and increasing patient’s overall survival remains a challenge. Nevertheless, crucial molec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Cell Culture Cancer Models: Development and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,299 Views
22 Pages

Limitations of Gliadel Wafers and Strategies for Next-Generation Local Delivery Systems for Glioblastoma

  • Ahmet Kartal,
  • Min J. Kim,
  • Hani Chanbour,
  • Yohannes Tsehay and
  • Safwan Alomari

11 March 2026

Background: Local delivery after resection of high-grade glioma, particularly glioblastoma (GBM), aims to increase intratumoral drug exposure while limiting systemic toxicity. The only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved implantable intr...

(This article belongs to the Collection Oncology: State-of-the-Art Research in the USA)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,741 Views
38 Pages

24 October 2025

Glioblastoma (GB) is an extremely aggressive tumor for which effective therapy is still in its infancy. Although several candidate therapeutics have been identified in functional preclinical assays, clinical trials have not supported their effectiven...

(This article belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,140 Views
21 Pages

Drug repurposing represents a rational and resource-efficient strategy to expand the oncological armamentarium by leveraging the established pharmacology, clinical experience, and safety-monitoring frameworks of approved non-oncological agents. Cloza...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Drugs to Xenobiotics: What Pharmacological Properties Are Involved?)