Latest Research on Drug Carrier

Dear Colleagues,

Drug carriers including polymeric nanocarriers, lipid-based nanocarriers, inorganic nanocarriers and composite nanocarriers have been widely used to improve the effectiveness, selectivity and safety of various drugs. Benefiting from the great advances of biology, medicine, chemistry, materials science and nanotechnology, a growing number of drug carriers have been translated from bench to bedside. However, improvements in biodegradability, biocompatibility, immunogenicity, targeting ability, stimuli-responsiveness, and delivery efficiency of drug carriers remain needed to further facilitate the translation of nanomedicines and meet the new requirements of clinical applications.

This Special Issue aims to cover the recent outstanding advances in design and preparation of novel drug carriers with the ideal physicochemical and biological properties to improve the therapeutic outcomes of various therapeutic agents including chemotherapeutics, immunostimulatory molecules, nucleic acids, antibodies, tumor antigens and therapeutic proteins. It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute a manuscript to this Special Issue. Research articles, reviews, and short communications are all welcome.

Dr. Chunsheng Xiao
Guest Editor

Dr. Peng Zhang
Dr. Yu Zhang
Dr. Pan He
Dr. Mingqian Li
Assistant Guest Editors

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