Dry Eye Disease–Focus on Drug Discovery and Development

Dear Colleagues,

Dry eye disease is one of the most prevalent diseases and one of the most common ophthalmic complaints encountered in clinical practice. Dry eye disease is of multifactorial origin and describes a clinically diverse group of ocular surface diseases associated with age-related changes to the various tissues of the ocular surface, immunological conditions such as Sjogren’s syndrome and ocular graft-vs-host disease (oGvHD), as well as surgical interventions. Current approved treatment modalities are subtype-specific and primarily target inflammatory pathways; there remains an urgent unmet clinical need for more efficacious and better-tolerated therapies.

In this Special Issue of IJMS, we are seeking articles that can accelerate drug discovery and development for dry eye disease by providing novel insights into the underlying mechanisms of dry eye disease, describing the standardization and validation of new animal models for dry eye disease, and investigating new therapeutic and drug delivery modalities. We welcome both preclinical and clinical studies. Manuscripts utilizing non-rodent models for dry eye disease subtypes are particularly encouraged.

Dr. Simon Kaja
Guest Editor

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