Recent progress in supramolecular peptide assemblies as virus mimics for cancer immunotherapy

Ying Cai1, Wei Ran1, Yihui Zhai1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Drug Research & Center of Pharmaceutics, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China. ypli@simm.ac.cn pzhang@simm.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

Biomaterials Science
|October 23, 2019
PubMed

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