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Advanced Methods and Technologies in Drug Discovery

edited by

Fernando Albericio

Philip Hublitz

and

Ivana Šagud

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5742 | Submission Open

Keywords: drug discovery; drug development; medicinal chemistry; disease prevention; therapeutic innovation; artificial intelligence in drug discovery; high-throughput screening; omics technologies; drug delivery systems; novel therapeutic strategies; drug design; nanomedicine; methodology for drug synthesis

Biometric Recognition: Interpretability, Explainability, and Interaction with Large-Scale Models

edited by

Hugo Proença

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open

Keywords: biometric recognition; facial recognition; fingerprint analysis; gait recognition

Methods, Protocols, and Analytical Approaches for the Assessment of Human Movement

edited by

Elissavet Rousanoglou

and

Elias N. Zois

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1821 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomechanical models; kinesiology; occupational; pattern recognition; sensors; wearable devices; visualization tools

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sciences and Physiology)

Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis

edited by

Daniel Cozzolino

, James Chapman and Aoife Power

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4852 | Submission Open

Keywords: IR spectroscopy; NIR spectroscopy; UV/VIS spectroscopy; NMR; mass spectrometry; fluorescence methods; spectrophotometric methods

Analytical Methods in Natural Sciences and Archaeometry

edited by

Nikolaos A. Kazakis

Lamprini Malletzidou

and

Nikolaos Laskaris

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4985 | Submission Open

Keywords: spectroscopy; microscopy; chromatography; X-rays; thermal analysis; luminescence; machine learning

Advanced Nanomedicine Methods for Drug Delivery and Tumor Microenvironment Modulation

edited by

Zhusheng Huang

submission deadline 10 Oct 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomedicine; drug delivery systems; tumor microenvironment; cancer immunotherapy; nano-enabled combination therapy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sciences and Physiology)

Current Methodology Advances in Cell Therapy Applications—2nd Edition

edited by

Kejin Hu

Lucia Monaco

and

Philip Hublitz

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open

Keywords: cell therapy; autologous; allogeneic; stem-cell-based therapies; T cell engineering; immuno-oncology; tissue repair

(This special issue belongs to the Section Molecular and Cellular Biology)

Feature Papers in Methods and Protocols 2026

edited by

Fernando Albericio

Sophie Alvarez

and

Maria Luisa Astolfi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: cell biology; biochemistry; chemistry; nanotechnology; biotechnology; imaging; applied computation and bioinformatics; genomics; proteomics; developmental biology; model organisms; pharmacology; structural biology/chemistry; biophysics; tissue engineering; public health

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