Metal-Based Drugs

<p>The reprint entitled Metal-Based Drugs: Past Present and Future covers some recent research and review articles in the field of metal-based drugs used in medicine. By purpose and content this Book is addressed to the vast number of life science researchers and health care workers (chemists pharmacists biochemists physicists and doctors). Our initiative to publish in <em>Molecules</em> Journal the Special Issue entitled Metal-Based Drugs: Past Present and Future was honored by 13 groups totaling 74 scientists from Asia (India Saudi Arabia and Taiwan) Europe (Bulgaria France Ireland Italy Romania Spain Switzerland and the U.K.) North America (Canada) and Africa (Egypt and South Africa). The number of involved researchers and the geographic distribution of their academic institutions indicate the great interest of the worldwide scientific community in discovering new metal-based drugs that can treat different diseases.</p>