Liposomal and Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Systems and Vaccines
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2023) | Viewed by 25109
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After the discovery of liposomes by Bangham in the early 1960s, they have been explored extensively, both as vehicles for drug delivery and as adjuvant carriers in vaccinology, starting from the first works by Gregoriadis, Ryman, and Allison in the 1970s. The advantage of liposomal and related lipid-based formulations lies in their flexibility, high biocompatibility, and multifunctionality. Nowadays, along with significant successes in the production and clinical implementation of traditional small molecule drugs in liposomal formulations for the treatment of oncological diseases, the first lipid-based formulations for gene therapy are being introduced in clinics. Finally, against the background of pandemic challenges, it is noteworthy to cite Gregory Gregoriadis, “that it took fifty or so years for the two technologies, mRNA and lipid vesicles, to come together at more or less the same time of their need” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medidd.2021.100104).
This Special Issue is addressed to those authors who are currently engaged in research on the use of liposomes, lipid nanoparticles (non-vesicular supramolecular systems, as opposed to classical liposomes), and other lipid-based formulations for the development of drug delivery systems and vaccines. The issue is aimed at considering a wide variety of the aspects surrounding the creation and characterization of lipid-based formulations (structural and functional), including delivery systems for small molecule drugs, peptides, oligonucleotides, aptamers, proteins, antibodies, and nucleic acid molecules. Systems for the targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, both to organs and tissues and to intracellular organelles, will also be considered in the scope. The undesirable effects mediated by the immune system in response to the introduction of lipid-based formulations (such as hypersensitivity reactions and others) and the mechanisms of their emergence will also be addressed.
Dr. Elena L. Vodovozova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- liposomes
- lipid nanoparticles
- lipid-based formulations
- drug delivery
- gene delivery
- mRNA and saRNA
- vaccines
- immunotherapy
- nanomedicine
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