Advanced Drug Carrier Systems for Enhanced Controlled and Targeted Drug Release

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Drug Carrier Systems for Enhanced Controlled and Targeted Drug Release”, of Pharmaceutics journal. The development of advanced drug carrier systems represents a key area of pharmaceutical research, enabling improved control over drug release profiles and enhanced targeting of therapeutic agents. By enabling site-specific delivery and controlled-release kinetics, advanced carrier systems can significantly reduce off-target exposure and overall systemic exposure, thereby minimizing dose-related adverse effects while maintaining or enhancing therapeutic efficacy.

This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality original research articles and review papers focusing on carrier design and the formulation of advanced drug delivery systems that enhance therapeutic performance and support the translation of innovative drug delivery platforms from research to clinical application.

 Original research articles and reviews are welcome to be submitted to this Special Issue. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, advanced nanocarriers and microcarriers, polymeric and lipid-based delivery systems, cyclodextrin-based formulations, metal–organic framework-based drug delivery systems, stimuli-responsive drug carriers, targeted delivery strategies, and controlled-release kinetics.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Krunoslav Žižek
Prof. Dr. Inge S. Zuhorn
Guest Editors

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