Peptide Biomaterials for Pharmaceutical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Peptides are small molecules consisting of a couple or several amino acids coupled through peptide bonds. They have important uses in living organisms as hormones and chemical messengers and can be used for the design of novel therapies and innovative pharmaceuticals. The emergence of innovative engineered proteins, peptide biopolymers and peptide-based biomaterials for novel drug delivery, drug development, biosensors or tissue regeneration has encountered important challenges, such as their chemical and physical fragility (rapid degradation), poor or limited solubility and scarce permeability.

The aim of this Special Issue is to offer to our readers an updated and comprehensive glimpse of the recent in vitro and in vivo uses of peptide-based biomaterials for pharmaceutical applications. We invite full papers, communications and reviews covering topics related to the keywords below.

Dr. Miguel Mendez-Rojas
Dr. Sergio Alberto Bernal Chavez
Dr. Sergio Alcalá Alcalá
Guest Editors

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• peptides
• pharmaceutical applications
• nanomedicine
• peptide materials
• peptide conjugates
• drug delivery systems
• nanocarriers
• biologics