Transdermal Nano-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Wound Healing

Dear Colleagues,

Despite the significant progress that has been made in clinical medicine, non-healing wounds such as diabetic foot, venous leg ulcers, pressure ulcers, and other types of injuries propose a serious world health problem. The current limitation for therapies involving proteins, genes, and small molecule drugs has been a delivery system that can effectively enable their full therapeutic benefits. Therefore, innovative drug-delivery systems that are based on nanotechnology for wound treatment have been developed. They can maintain high drug bioactivity bioavailability and can facilitate its release or presentation within the wound at a physiologically relevant rate and duration. In this Special Issue of Pharmaceutics, we aim to highlight recent advances in nanotechnolodgy-based delivery systems for wound healing applications. In particular, we will focus on those systems using hydrogels, scaffolds, biologics, complexes, and coacervates to discuss their advantages and potential drawbacks.

Dr. Agnes Klar
Guest Editor

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