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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Nanoparticle (NP)-based drug delivery aims to improve the therapeutic index of anticancer agents.
  • Current NP design relies on empirical choices for size and aspect ratio, potentially leading to suboptimal delivery efficiency.
  • Efficient delivery depends on NP size and aspect ratio, influencing tumor adherence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply rigorous optimization to nanoparticle design for enhanced drug delivery.
  • To formulate a multiobjective optimization problem balancing NP accumulation and distribution.
  • To extend optimization to include NP biochemical properties like ligand-receptor binding affinity and ligand density.

Main Methods:

  • Preliminary investigation of NP size and aspect ratio effects on delivery efficiency.
  • Formulation of a multiobjective optimization problem solved using mesh adaptive direct search.
  • Extension of the optimization to include NP biochemical properties.

Main Results:

  • Delivery efficiency increases monotonically with NP size and aspect ratio, but maximizing these can impair drug distribution.
  • A multiobjective optimization approach quantified the trade-off between NP accumulation and distribution.
  • Optimizing physical and biochemical properties simultaneously led to reduced NP sizes and enhanced cellular uptake.

Conclusions:

  • Rigorous optimization provides insights into NP structures for desirable drug delivery.
  • A specific ellipsoid NP design (720 nm major axis, 7.45 aspect ratio) was identified as a near-optimal solution.
  • Simultaneous optimization of physical and biochemical properties is crucial for effective nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems.