Editorial: Immune cell exhaustion: new challenges and opportunities in cancer therapy

Hao Chi; Lai Jiang; Xuancheng Zhou; Lexin Wang; Guanhu Yang; Honghao Luo; Xiaoli Liu; Ke Xu; Gang Tian

doi:10.3389/fimmu.2024.1527428

Editorial: Immune cell exhaustion: new challenges and opportunities in cancer therapy

Front Immunol. 2024 Dec 2:15:1527428. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1527428. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Hao Chi^#¹, Lai Jiang^#¹, Xuancheng Zhou^#¹, Lexin Wang^#², Guanhu Yang^{3

4}, Honghao Luo⁵, Xiaoli Liu⁶, Ke Xu⁷, Gang Tian^{8

9

10}

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Medical College, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
² Western(Chongqing) Collaborative, Innovation, Center for Intelligent Diagnostics and Digital Medicine, Chongqing, China.
³ Research Department, Swiss University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bad Zurzach, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Specialty Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Xichong People's Hospital, Nanchong, China.
⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, Xichong People's Hospital, Nanchong, China.
⁷ Department of Oncology, Chongqing General Hospital, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
⁸ Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
⁹ Sichuan Province Engineering Technology Research Center of Molecular Diagnosis of Clinical Diseases, Luzhou, China.
¹⁰ Molecular Diagnosis of Clinical Diseases Key Laboratory of Luzhou, Sichuan, China.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: immune cell exhaustion; immunotherapy; single-cell sequencing (scRNA-seq); therapeutic targets; tumor microenvironment.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was supported by grants from the Luzhou Science and Technology Department Applied Basic Research Program (No: 2022-JYJ-145), the Sichuan Province Science and Technology Department of foreign (border) high-end talent introduction project (No: 2023JDGD0037), Sichuan Provincial Medical Association (No: Q22027).