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Drug Delivery

 

Drug delivery refers to approaches for transporting a pharmaceutical compound in the body as needed to safely achieve its desired therapeutic effect.

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Formation of nano- and micro-scale drug delivery systems using microfluidic technology

17 October 2014 | By , ,

The recent developments in microfluidic technology have provided an effective microreactor platform for the production of a range of pharmaceutically related materials in both nano- and micro-scale. This can be attributed to the unique characteristics that microfluidic-based reactors offer in terms of controllability and uniformity of the material characteristics, compared…

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Synthetic macrocyclic receptors as tools in drug delivery and drug discovery

10 October 2014 | By ,

Macrocyclic compounds (see Figure 1) have fascinated medicinal chemists for generations. The first ones which have been characterised are the naturally occurring cyclodextrins (CDs), cyclic oligomers of glucose, which can be obtained by bacterial synthesis from starch. Calixarenes (CXs) were among the first man-made macrocycles, followed by crown ethers (Pedersen,…