Application of Microfluidics and Biosensors in Pharmaceutical Research

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute your work to this Special Issue, entitled “Application of Microfluidics and Biosensors in Pharmaceutical Research”. Owing to their ability to manipulate fluids confined in small volumes, ranging from nano- to microlitter, microfluidic systems provide numerous technical advances such as the minimization of sample and energy consumption, precise sampling operation, and high-throughput signal. Together with microfluidic technology, a number of biosensor systems have been studied and used in pharmaceutical research. The strategy implementation of microfluidics and biosensors in pharmaceutical applications, including drug development (formulation, delivery, screening, and evaluation), diagnostics technology, point-of-care devices, biological engineering and therapy, and other chemical and biological analysis systems. Due to their flexibility and minimized size, microfluidic devices can be intended to integrate upgrading their functions with different analytical systems and instruments. The advanced behaviors of microfluidics devices, involving portability, automation, and multiplexed channels, allow them to be powerful tools for real-time, safe, and outside diagnostics testing that demand improving clinical outcomes for the pharmaceutical industry. Considering all these, the Special Issue on “Application of Microfluidics and Biosensors in Pharmaceutical Research” aims to showcase the recent fabrication, design strategy, and application of microfluidics and biosensors in the pharmaceutic field. We believe that this topic will appeal to broad research, including chemistry, biology, and physics, and for this reason, we would be delighted if you would accept our invitation to contribute to this opportunity. All original research articles and comprehensive reviews covering this topic are welcome.  

Dr. Kieu The Loan Trinh
Dr. Nguyen Nhat Nam
Guest Editors

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• biosensor
• bioassay and bioanalysis
• biological engineering
• drug formulation and evaluation
• drug screening and delivery
• diseases diagnostics
• droplet/digital microfluidics
• microfluidic fabrication
• micro-/nanofluidic systems
• point-of-care and lab-on-chip