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Koushik Debnath, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

Submission Status: Open until 19 December 2025

Long-acting formulations

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Muhammad Tahir Haseeb, MPhil, PhD, University of Sargodha, Pakistan
Bhupendra Gopalbhai Prajapati, PhD, Ganpat University, India


Submission Status: Open until 30 July 2025

Advancements in physiologically based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) models for drug development

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Qingfeng He, PharmD, Fudan University, China
Seung-Hyun Jeong, PhD, Sunchon National University, South Korea

Submission Status: Open until 11 July 2025

Reproductive toxicology

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Roland Eghoghosoa Akhigbe, BSc, MBBS, MSc, PhD, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria
Shao-Chen Sun, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University, China


Submission Status: Open until 16 June 2025

Machine learning for predictive toxicology

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Duc Nguyen, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Marcus Tullius Scotti, PhD, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil


Submission Status: Open until 14 June 2025

Drug repurposing for anticancer therapies

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Shreyas Ramchandra Gaikwad, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA
K Ramanathan, BTech, MTech, PhD, Vellore Institute of Technology, India


Submission Status: Open until 26 May 2025

Advances in microphysiological systems and organs-on-chips technologies

Guest Editors
Ivan Rusyn, MD, PhD, Texas A&M University, USA
Terry R Van Vleet, PhD, AbbVie, USA


Submission Status: Open until 19 May 2025

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Developments in selective drug deliveries

Guest Editors:
Koushik Debnath, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Vijayabhaskarreddy Junnuthula, MSc, University of Helsinki, Finland
 

Drugs and gut microbiome interactions

Guest Editors:
Imran Khan: Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical and Life Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KPK, Pakistan
Mohammad Taheri: Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
 

Big data and artificial intelligence for drug discovery

Guest Editors:
Yuemin Bian: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Michal Brylinski: Louisiana State University, USA
 

2016

Thematic series

Neurometals
Edited by: Dr Michael Aschner
Collection published: 2 November 2016

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  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 2.8
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.7
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.774
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.710

    Speed 2024
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 15
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 130

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