Novel Drugs, Targets and Therapies against Infectious Diseases
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Targeting and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 9218
Special Issue Editors
Interests: system biology; immunoproteome; infectious diseases; sexual transmission diseases; mass spectrometry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: cancer vaccines; vaccines for infectious diseases; cancer immunotherapy; oncolytic viruses; phage display; adenovirus; vaccinia; therapeutic antibodies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, the treatment of infectious diseases has become substantially complicated and is therefore a serious problem in health and disease management. The increase in drug resistance, as well as the threat of new pandemics and emerging infections is a fact. This necessitates the development of new strategies, improved conventional antimicrobials drugs, or even completely new mechanisms of action.
The discovery of new compounds as candidates and the development of new strategies are essential scientifically, socially, and economically. On the other hand, improvements in bioinformatics and computational biology have increased the efficiency of many stages of the drug discovery pipeline or strategies. In fact, bioinformatics methods such as molecular dynamics, molecular docking or QSAR (including in silico methods) are strategically used when new drugs are considered for potential use, e.g., for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
This Special Issue on “Novel Drugs, Targets, and Therapies against Infectious Diseases” focuses on the identification and further optimization of corresponding compounds and strategies, for example, i) target-, ligand-, and computer-based approaches that involve biological evaluation, ii) drug design and drug formulation/delivery, and iii) molecular docking, molecular dynamics. Interdisciplinary studies are encouraged for submission.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Phagotherapy;
- Biological therapies, including peptides and antibodies;
- Optimization of pipelines for personalized diagnosis;
- Vaccines;
- Bioinformatic approaches;
- Drug formulation/delivery and targeted therapy;
- New therapies and strategies to tackle resistance, infections, and oncolytic virus.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Eva Torres-Sangiao
Dr. Erkko O. Ylösmäki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- infectious diseases
- immunotherapy
- vaccines
- nanotechnology
- drug formulation
- targets
- biological therapies
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Planned Papers
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Title: Ampicillin Stability in a Portable Elastomeric Infusion Pump, a Step Forward in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy
Author: Mateos
Highlights: -The results show a stability of up to 72 h under refrigeration of 15 mg/mL AMP, ensuring a subsequent administration at room temperature for 24 hours.
-50 mg/mL AMP can only be cold-storaged for 24 h and administered in the subsequent 8 hours.
-The present study clearly positions OPAT as a new feasible option for patients.