Automation and data-driven design of polymer therapeutics

R Upadhya, S Kosuri, M Tamasi, TA Meyer… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polymers are uniquely suited for drug delivery and biomaterial applications due to tunable
structural parameters such as length, composition, architecture, and valency. To facilitate …

Advances in polymer design for enhancing oral drug solubility and delivery

JM Ting, WW Porter III, JM Mecca, FS Bates… - Bioconjugate …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Synthetic polymers have enabled amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) to emerge as an oral
delivery strategy for overcoming poor drug solubility in aqueous environments. Modern ASD …

Controlling complex coacervation via random polyelectrolyte sequences

AM Rumyantsev, NE Jackson, B Yu, JM Ting… - ACS Macro …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The utilization of chemical sequence control in polymeric materials is key to enabling
material design on par with biomacromolecular systems. One important avenue for scalable …

The role of polymers in oral bioavailability enhancement; a review

H Liu, LS Taylor, KJ Edgar - Polymer, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the most important obstacles to successful oral drug delivery is the poor solubility of
many drugs in aqueous media. This problem is of intense scientific and practical interest …

Reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization: Fundamentals and use in practice

EV Chernikova, EV Sivtsov - Polymer Science, Series B, 2017 - Springer
Modern approaches to the synthesis of tailor-made macromolecules by radical
polymerization proceeding through the reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer …

Sequence Design of Random Heteropolymers as Protein Mimics

I Jayapurna, Z Ruan, M Eres, P Jalagam… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Random heteropolymers (RHPs) have been computationally designed and experimentally
shown to recapitulate protein-like phase behavior and function. However, unlike proteins …

PET-RAFT and SAXS: high throughput tools to study compactness and flexibility of single-chain polymer nanoparticles

R Upadhya, NS Murthy, CL Hoop, S Kosuri… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
From protein science, it is well understood that ordered folding and 3D structure mainly arise
from balanced and noncovalent polar and nonpolar interactions, such as hydrogen bonding …

Mapping Composition Evolution through Synthesis, Purification, and Depolymerization of Random Heteropolymers

H Yu, L Liu, R Yin, I Jayapurna… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Random heteropolymers (RHPs) consisting of three or more comonomers have been
routinely used to synthesize functional materials. While increasing the monomer variety …

High-throughput excipient discovery enables oral delivery of poorly soluble pharmaceuticals

JM Ting, S Tale, AA Purchel, SD Jones… - ACS central …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Polymeric excipients are crucial ingredients in modern pills, increasing the therapeutic
bioavailability, safety, stability, and accessibility of lifesaving products to combat diseases in …

Hydrogen bonding principle-based molecular design of a polymer excipient and impacts on hydrophobic drug properties: molecular simulation and experiment

S Zhang, T Wang, J Xue, H Xu, S Wu - Biomacromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although some commercial excipients for improving the solubility of highly crystalline drugs
are widely used, they still cannot cover all types of hydrophobic drugs. In this regard, with …