Best Paper Award

We are pleased to announce that the following two research articles and two review papers were selected as the winners of the Marine Drugs Best Paper Awards 2019 from all the papers published between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018:

Article: Chitosan Nanoparticles as a Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery System for Ocular Administration
Mariana M. Silva, Raquel Calado, Joana Marto, Ana Bettencourt, António J. Almeida, and Lídia M. D. Gonçalves
Marine Drugs 2017, 15, 370; doi:10.3390/md15120370
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/15/12/370

Article: Chemical Reactivity Properties, pKa Values, AGEs Inhibitor Abilities and Bioactivity Scores of the Mirabamides A–H Peptides of Marine Origin Studied by Means of Conceptual DFT
Juan Frau, Norma Flores-Holguín, and Daniel Glossman-Mitnik
Marine Drugs 2018, 16, 302; doi:10.3390/md16090302
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/16/9/302

Review: Marine Fish Proteins and Peptides for Cosmeceuticals: A Review
Jayachandran Venkatesan, Sukumaran Anil, Se-Kwon Kim and Min Suk Shim
Marine Drugs 2017, 15, 143; doi:10.3390/md15050143
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/15/5/143

Review: Marine Sponge Natural Products with Anticancer Potential: An Updated Review
Cinzia Calcabrini, Elena Catanzaro, Anupam Bishayee, Eleonora Turrini, and Carmela Fimognari
Marine Drugs 2017, 15, 310; doi:10.3390/md15100310
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/15/10/310

We considered the above papers to represent valuable contributions to Marine Drugs and the scientific literature. We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Marine Drugs to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive the privilege of publishing an additional paper free of charge in open-access format in Marine Drugs after the standard peer-review procedure. A cash award of 500 CHF will also be awarded for each of the winning papers.

Kind Regards,
Marine Drugs Editorial Office