Precision and Targeted Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery

A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 43

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Department of Pharmaceutics, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Interests: controlled drug delivery; nanotechnology in drug delivery; liposomes
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Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan
Interests: cancer biology; nanomedicine; cancer immunotherapy; drug delivery; RNA therapeutics

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DFCI/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: cancer biology; nanomedicine; cancer immunotherapy; drug delivery; RNA therapeutics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past three decades, nanomedicine has indeed made an innovative contribution as a promising drug delivery platform for cancer therapy. Nanoparticles have been developed to overcome the limitations of free therapeutics, reduce the adverse effects of conventional cancer therapies and overcome heterogenous barriers. These limitations vary across patient populations and diseases. These challenges have also been accomplished through precision and targeted therapeutics, in which personalized interventions or targeted therapies have been shown to be more precise and effective treatments. However, nanoparticle development continues to focus on optimizing delivery platforms with a tailor-made solution. Various nanoparticles that include lipid-based nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and inorganic nanoparticles are engineered or targeted, in specific ways, and can improve the therapeutic efficacy while minimizing off-target toxicity via tumor tissue-, cell- and organelle-specific targeting in a more personalized manner. We are inviting papers, reviews and communications regarding recent advances in nanoparticle design for both non-personalized and personalized applications that could be applied to improve precision therapies.

Dr. Songwei Tan
Dr. Ankita Borah
Dr. Sindhu C. Pillai
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Keywords

  • nanoparticle
  • drug delivery
  • precision medicine
  • targeted delivery
  • cancer

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