1. Introduction: state of the art, new challenges, and opportunities for drug delivery and its application<br>2. Drug delivery application: an outlook on past and present technologies<br>3. General mechanisms of drug loading and sustained release <br>4. Supramolecular hydrogels as drug delivery systems for nerve regeneration and wound healing<br>5. Molecularly imprinted polymeric carriers for controlled drug release<br>6. Engineered extracellular vesicles as drug delivery systems for the next generation of nanomedicine<br>7. Polyelectrolyte multilayer films for cancer therapy<br>8. Porous metal<ORGANIC delivery<br drug for platform potential a as carriers nanoscale framework>9. Stimulus-responsive liposomes as smart nanocarriers for drug delivery applications<br>10. Hybrid platforms for drug delivery applications<br>11. Self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery systems with bioavailability potential<br>12. Graphene-based nanomaterials for targeted drug delivery and tissue engineering<br>13. Bionanocomposites as a new platform for drug delivery systems<br>14. Nanotube platforms for effective drug delivery applications<br>15. Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticle drug for oral delivery applications<br>16. Delivery of radiopharmaceuticals and theranostic agents: targeted alpha therapy<br>17. Controlled drug release and drug delivery applications from mesoporous nanoparticles<br>18. Porous nanostructured metal oxides as potential scaffolds for drug delivery<br>19. Thin films as an emerging platform for drug delivery<br>20. Modeling and simulation in drug delivery<br>21. In-vivo drug release studies<br>22. Toxicity measurement and toxicity studies of drug delivery<br>23. Nasal and pulmonary routes of drug delivery<br>24. “Gene therapy: ethical and regulatory issues<br>25. New challenges in drug discovery