Advances in Exosomes in Drug Delivery Systems

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue, entitled ‘Advances in Exosomes in Drug Delivery Systems’, in Pharmaceutics. This Special Issue aims to provide its readers with an update on the advancement of exosomes as promising drug delivery systems for therapeutic applications.

Exosomes are membrane-based extracellular vesicles that are naturally produced by the cells. The nano size range of exosomes and their unique properties, such as stability, biocompatibility and low immunogenicity, are key advantages, make them suitable for nanoparticulate drug delivery systems and also enable them to be considered as promising delivery carriers for future clinical use. In this Special Issue, we would like to invite scholars who are currently working on the current state of the art in the application of exosome or exosome-inspired systems for drug delivery to submit high-quality research and review articles.

The topic includes, but is not limited to, the following:  the composition, biogenesis, isolation and biological and clinical applications of exosomes, as well as the methods employed to characterise them. The biopharmaceutical features of exosomes include the drug/macromolecule loading method, the bioengineering or modification of exosomes and the potential application of exosomes in different diseases.

Dr. Golam Kibria
Guest Editor

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