Functional Polymers in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 2066
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biopolymers; polymer scaffolds; smart drug delivery systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymers represent a significant group of biomaterials that are exploited for various biomedical applications. They have been extensively studied and implemented for several pharmaceutical applications, which include smart injectable delivery systems for poorly soluble drugs towards gene transfection. Moreover, with the recent developments in translational medicine, drug- or protein-loaded polymer scaffolds have been specifically designed for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
Synthetic or natural polymers are highly flexible in tailoring their physical, chemical, and mechanical properties as well as their degradation kinetics via synthesis or by providing chemical modifications. Therefore, they can be tailor-made to optimize their encapsulation efficiency, to exhibit dedicated stimuli-responsive behaviour, providing smart drug delivery systems, and to tune their biodegradation in order to tailor the release profile and mechanism to the application needs. This Special Issue aims to address how polymer-based drug delivery systems ensure optimal therapeutic efficiency by preserving and precisely delivering therapeutic agents to targeted sites with minimal site effects, releasing them in a controlled and sustained manner according to the patient-specific therapeutic function.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Christine Jerome
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural and synthetic polymers
- biomaterials
- smart drug delivery system
- medical device
- three-dimensional porous scaffolds
- biodegradable polymer
- stimuli-responsive polymer
- targeted drug delivery
