Sustainability Functional Biopolymers for Future Precision Medicine: Processing and Translational Issues
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 3072
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Interests: biomaterials; drug delivery system; skin wound healing; tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; cell delivery system; multifunctional smart materials; acellular tissue substitute; nanomaterials technology
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Interests: scaffolds design; regenerative medicine; nature-derived matrices; polymers functionalization; cells; tissue engineering; stem cell culture; cell culture; biocompatibility evaluations; bioink design; drug release systems; 3D in vitro models
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Precision medicine is a future essential advanced shifting era in clinical practice to construct suitable treatments that are based on an individual or subsets of patients. Functional biopolymer development faces a challenge due to the limitations of a “one-size-fits-all” approach to medicine intentions. Recently, a new concept of bioconvergence approaches has been introduced in regenerative medicine involving expertise from various fields, primarily synergistic life sciences, technology, and computerized systems. For this strategy to succeed, sustainable functional biopolymers must play a major role in future precision/personalized medicine. Certain issues should be addressed, especially in terms of the selection of compatible natural polymers, extraction, characterization, cell interaction, efficiency in preclinical models, mass production, and translational issues, mainly in clinical trial stages. This Special Issue will serve as a platform to gather new biopolymers, technologies, and perspectives from experts globally regarding the sustainability of authentic functional biopolymers.
Prof. Dr. Mh Busra Fauzi
Prof. Dr. Antonella Motta
Guest Editors
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