Advanced Biomaterials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Applications

Dear Colleagues,

With increasing life expectancy leading to growing demand for long-term care across various diseases, it is crucial to address the current and future unmet needs in healthcare. Innovative drug delivery technologies that surmount longstanding barriers such as enhancing the water solubility of poorly soluble drugs, overcoming biological obstacles, and developing more efficacious long-acting depot formulations are urgently needed. Concurrently, tissue engineering has experienced rapid advancements in the past few decades as a technology with equal importance to drug delivery. It represents an interdisciplinary endeavor where scientists fabricate diverse biological tissue substitutes that mimic natural tissues, aiming to facilitate the regeneration or replacement of damaged or diseased tissues. Many of these collaborative efforts have been successfully translated into practical therapeutic applications.

In this Special Issue, there is a focus on advanced biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering, encompassing recent advancements, accomplishments, and biomedical applications that are rooted in the realm of materials science and engineering. This includes all aspects of formulations, such as the design and characterization of innovative composite biomaterials, the physicochemical and biological properties of drugs or biomacromolecules, as well as the host or cell response to drugs or matrix. In particular, research on drug release or cell regulatory coatings/membranes, micro-nano particle carriers, scaffolds, hydrogels, macromolecular conjugates, and plant polyphenol complexes for drug delivery or tissue engineering is highly favored.

Dr. Bo Zhang
Guest Editor

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• implant devices
• surface modification
• bionics design
• drug/cell/gene/protein/peptide delivery
• tissue repair and remodeling
• immunoregulation