Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 61 (2009) 987

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Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

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Preface

Nanofibers in regenerative medicine and drug delivery☆

Development of biomimicking scaffolding materials remains the Sing Yian Chew

major goal of research in tissue engineering. As such, nanofibrous (Theme Editor)
systems have gained significant amount of interest over the past
decade. These nanoscaled fibrous substrates represent a unique group School of Chemical and BiomedicalSingEngineering,
Yian Chew
of materials due to their three-dimensional nanosized features that School of Chemical and Biomedical
NanyangEngineering, Nanyang
Technological Technological
University, Singapore
closely resemble that of the extracellular matrix. Their high surface University, Singapore
Corresponding author.
area-to-volume ratio characteristics also enable enhancement in E-mail address:Corresponding author.
SYChew@ntu.edu.sg
cellular attachment and efficient mass transport from the scaffolds. E-mail address: SYChew@ntu.edu.sg.
With the tremendous progress that has been realized in the recent Tae Gwan Park
years, nanofibrous systems may be ideal candidates as direct School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological
(Theme Editor)
implantable biomimicking devices for tissue regeneration and also University, Singapore
as model platforms for basic cell biological analyses. This theme issue E-mail address:
Department of tgpark@kaist.ac.kr.
Biological Sciences,
of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews brings together the recent Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
advancements and trends in the application of nanofibrous systems Available
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for regenerative medicine in the form of drug delivery systems and
tissue scaffolding devices.

☆ This preface is part of the Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews theme issue on
“Nanofibers in regenerative medicine; drug delivery”.

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