Development and Evaluation of Inhalable Dry Powder Formulations, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Pharmacy and Formulation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 441
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pulmonary delivery; dry powder inhalations; targeted drug delivery systems; particle engineering; spray drying; surface characterization; physicochemical characterization; respirable size particle dissolution
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Dear Colleagues,
Respiratory drug delivery is an important route for the administration of the treatment and prevention of diseases of the respiratory tract (nasal and pulmonary regions), and for delivering drugs non-invasively to the central nervous system (CNS). Pulmonary drug delivery has recently gained significant importance in the therapeutic field due to its various advantages, such as pain-free administration, targeted drug delivery with minimum systemic exposure, rapid onset of action, reduced enzymatic degradation, high drug concentrations in the lungs, and avoidance of hepatic first-pass metabolism when compared to the other conventional routes of administration. Formulations including biologicals have shown an increased stability when they are in solid-state rather than liquid formulations, making dry powder inhalers (DPIs) the more preferred formulation for pulmonary drug delivery. The aerodynamic diameter, along with other features of the particles, plays a key role in the deposition of aerosols in the lungs; therefore, it is important to engineer the particles using the right technique.
We are so happy that the first edition has published nine papers successfully, and most of them have been highly viewed and cited. To attract more attention from the community on this topic, we opened the second edition.
This Special Issue focuses on the design and development of innovative dry powder formulations as inhalation aerosols via lung and nasal routes of administration.
Dr. Basanth Babu Eedara
Dr. David Armando Encinas Basurto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- respiratory delivery
- dry powder inhalation
- particle engineering design
- physicochemical characterization
- aerosolization
- lung delivery
- nasal delivery
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