In recent years, polymeric micelles have been extensively utilized in pre-clinical studies for
delivering poorly soluble chemotherapeutic agents in cancer. Polymeric micelles are formed …

Advances in nanotechnology have favored the development of novel colloidal formulations
able to modulate the pharmacological and biopharmaceutical properties of drugs. The …

The platinum drugs, cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin, prevail in the treatment of cancer,
but new platinum agents have been very slow to enter the clinic. Recently, however, there …

Targeted delivery combined with controlled drug release has a pivotal role in the future of
personalized medicine. This review covers the principles, advantages, and drawbacks of …

The utilization of bio-based materials to develop sustainable products is an emerging area
of research. Renewable biomass-derived monomers have gained prominence in recent …

Many different systems and strategies have been evaluated for drug targeting to tumors over
the years. Routinely used systems include liposomes, polymers, micelles, nanoparticles and …

Nanoparticles (NPs) have demonstrated great potential for the oral delivery of protein drugs
that have very limited oral bioavailability. Orally administered NPs could be absorbed by the …

Polymers that start degrading under acidic conditions are increasingly investigated as a
pathway to trigger the release of drugs once the drug carrier reached the slightly acidic …

This overview focuses on bioconjugates of water-soluble polymers with low molecular
weight drugs and proteins. After a short discussion of the origins of the field, the state-of-the …

Synthetic methods in polymer chemistry have evolved tremendously during the last decade.
Nowadays more and more attention is devoted to the application of those tools in the …