Genome Medicine is pleased to present a special issue on ‘Tumor immune microenvironment and immunotherapy’, guest edited by Zlatko Trajanoski of Medical University of Innsbruck and Noel de Miranda of Leiden University Medical Center. Cancer treatment has been revolutionized by recent unraveling and targeting of the interaction between tumors and the host immune system. This special issue captures recent insights using genomic approaches toward characterizing the immune system in the tumor microenvironment, immunotherapeutic targeting, as well as functional – and dysfunctional – anti-tumor immune responses, highlighting the clinical applications of these advances.
This collection of articles has not been sponsored and articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process. The Guest Editors declare that they have no competing interests. Guest Editors serve an advisory role to guide the scope of the special issue and commissioned content; final editorial decisions lie with the Editor.