Advances in Polymers and Polysaccharides in Delivery Systems
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2025) | Viewed by 6358
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Health is a top priority in today’s society. Although medicine has recorded many advances in recent years, it is clear that new directions are emerging in pharmaceutical research, namely the development of new treatments based on drugs with higher specificity, knowledge of the mechanisms by which new drugs act in the body, and the development of new types of drug formulations capable of increasing the treatment effectiveness.
Such formulations, such as systems with the controlled, sustained, or targeted release of various biologically active compounds (drugs, enzymes, microorganisms, cells, and food supplements), represent a field of science that progresses rapidly through the cumulative contributions of chemists, biochemists, pharmacologists, doctors, and nutritionists. The increased interest shown by the scientific community regarding polymer materials based on synthetic or polysaccharides represents a consequence of their remarkable characteristics as well as of the diverse necessities in the medical and pharmaceutical fields. For these reasons, this Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Polymers and Polysaccharides in Delivery Systems”, aims to offer researchers in the field the opportunity to share the latest achievements, insights, and experiences in the development and applications of polymeric delivery systems based on synthetic polymers and/or polysaccharides.
Dr. Stefania Racovita
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polysaccharides
- synthetic polymers
- drug delivery systems
- enzyme drugs
- gene delivery
- targeted release
- controlled drug delivery systems
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