Dear Colleagues,

Cellular membranes, such as plasma membrane, mitochondrial membrane, and nuclear membrane, act as barriers and transporters of theranostic (therapeutic and diagnostic) agents (drugs and nanoparticles) that are primarily chosen to target cell-based structures. Many nanoparticles are also used as carriers of drugs when the nanoparticle-drug complexes are adsorbed by membranes and then delivered to cellular interior regions. In the case of cell-originated diseases, many cell-based structures experience structural alterations or mutations. In therapeutics, these altered structures are targeted to get repaired or eliminated. The physicochemical properties of both membranes and the membrane interacting agents mutually dictate to determine their permanent or temporary membrane residency potency or the membrane delivery into cellular target structures. Understanding the membrane interactions of drugs and nanoparticles is thus very important for drug discovery, drug delivery, nanoparticle design, creating drug-nanoparticle complexes and imaging cellular structures. Furthermore, the membrane interactions in drugs and nanoparticles may also cause membrane-based cytotoxicity. In this special issue, we welcome articles to address all these medically relevant topics and phenomena. Both research and review articles using biophysical, biochemical, biological, pharmaceutical, medical will be considered for publication. In addition, we welcome articles covering theoretical, experimental, and computational research data.

Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman
Guest Editor

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