Recent Advances of Novel Pharmaceutical Designs for Anti-Cancer Therapies, 3rd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1583
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; natural products; multi-component reactions; metal-based drugs; antibiotics and antimycotics; anticancer drugs; antiparasitic drugs; antiviral drugs
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of efficient and well-tolerated anticancer drugs is one of the main healthcare challenges of the century, with rising numbers of cancer patients worldwide. The close correspondence of clinicians, tumor biologists and medicinal chemists is mandatory for the successful establishment of new cancer treatments. Small-molecule protein binders and enzyme inhibitors, natural products, DNA-targeting alkylating agents and metal complexes form the main part of the current arsenal of anticancer drugs, which can serve as starting points for the development of new compounds with improved activity, bioavailability and potential to overcome drug resistance. Repurposed drugs and cost-effective new compounds obtained from multi-component reactions or few-step syntheses can become broadly available anticancer drugs. Computer-aided drug design contributes to the optimisation of existing drugs, as well as the identification of the first-generation inhibitors of new cancer targets. Sophisticated formulation systems improve pharmacokinetics and the tumor targeting properties of anticancer drugs. Recent drug research efforts aim at cancer epigenetics, cancer stem-like cells, tumor microenvironment and immunology. This Special Issue intends to showcase the current efforts on anticancer drug design and development. Original research articles, review articles, and short communications within (but not restricted to) the described research fields are welcome.
Dr. Bernhard Biersack
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer
- anticancer drugs
- drug design
- targeted therapy
- immunotherapy
- molecular target
- molecular mechanism
- drug resistance
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