Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397) publishes peer-reviewed research papers, short notes, and reviews reporting on the discovery, development, exploitation, and production of biologically and therapeutically active compounds from marine habitats. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their research in as much detail as possible; therefore, there is no restriction on the maximum length of the manuscript.

Scope
Subject areas include:

Identification of bioactive compounds from marine microorganisms, invertebrates, fishes, and plants (e.g. algae, seagrasses, mangroves)
Pharmacological characterization of marine compounds or their derivatives
Marine natural products with activity against human, animal and plant diseases
Marine natural products with insecticidal or herbicidal activities
Synthesis, mutasynthesis and medicinal chemistry of marine natural products
Marine proteomics, glycomics, and lipidomics related to drug discovery or bioactivity
Marine drug development, including pharmaceutical formulation and clinical trials
Marine chemical ecology research inspiring marine drug discovery
Innovative sampling and isolation techniques targeting bioactive marine natural products
Marine biotechnology and molecular biology studies related to drug discovery or production
Structural and biological characterization of marine toxins
Biomaterials of marine origin
Marine-derived ingredients for cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, marine-derived functional foods and nutritional supplements

Editors (7)
Prof. Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati E-Mail Website1 Website2 
Editor-in-Chief
Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Tel. +39-081678509 
Interests: marine and terrestrial natural products; pharmaceutical biology; stereostructure elucidation; bioactivity
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Prof. Dr. Anake Kijjoa E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar and CIIMAR, Universidade do Porto, Rua Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira, nº228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
Tel. +351 220428331 
Interests: antibacterial compounds from higher plants, marine invertebrates, soil and marine-derived fungi, cosmetic ingredients from marine resources, natural biopesticides
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Prof. Vassilios Roussis E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Tel. +30210 7274 592; Fax: +30 210 7274 592 
Interests: hybrid materials; electrospinning; nanofibers; marine biopolymers; biomedical applications
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Prof. Dr. Claudiu T. Supuran grade E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Neurofarba Department, Sezione di Scienze Farmaceutiche e Nutraceutiche, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) 50019, Italy
Fax: +39-055-4573385 
Interests: drug design; metalloenzymes; carbonic anhydrases, anticancer agents; antiinfectives; sulfonamides; coumarins
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Prof. Dr. Marialuisa Menna E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Interests: bioactive natural products; marine metabolites; NMR spectroscopy; structure elucidation; tunicates
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Dr. Hitoshi Sashiwa E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Kaneka Co., Ltd, 5-1-1 Torikai-Nishi, Settsu, Osaka 566-0072 Japan
Tel. +81-72-653-8333 
Interests: chemical modification of chitin and chitosan and their biomedical applications; biodegradable polymer; bio-based polymer
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Dr. Ipek Kurtboke E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Genecology Research Centre and the School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia
Interests: microbial ecology and diversity; microbial systematics; biodiscovery; microbial biotechnology; applied, environmental, and industrial microbiology; marine microbiology; biological control; actinomycetology; bacteriophages
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Editorial Board Members (173)
Prof. Dr. David Adams E-Mail Website 


Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
Interests: acetylcholine nicotinic receptors; voltage-gated ion channels; venom peptides; conotoxins; structure-function relationship; electrophysiology; nociception
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Conotoxins
Dr. Shamil Sh. Afiyatullov E-Mail Website 


G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Tel. +7(423)-2311430; Fax: +7(423)-2314050 
Interests: natural products chemistry; chemistry of bioactive compounds (secondary metabolites: alkaloids, isoprenoids, triterpenoidal and steroidal oligoglycosides et al.)
Prof. Dr. Fernando Albericio E-Mail Website 


1. School of Chemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa 
2. Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +27 614 009 144; Fax: +34 93 403 71 26 
Interests: solid-phase chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; drug delivery systems; peptides; peptide drug conjugates; orthogonal chemistry; drug discovery; biomaterials
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Solid Phase Synthesis
Special Issue in Molecules: Chemical Protein and Peptide Synthesis
Special Issue in Molecules: Combinatorial Synthesis
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Selected Papers from the 14th International Symposium on Marine Natural Products
Special Issue in Molecules: Organic Synthesis on Solid Phase
Special Issue in Molecules: Peptide Therapeutics
Special Issue in Methods and Protocols: Feature Papers
Special Issue in Biomedicines: Peptides of Natural Origins as Leads for Drug Discovery: From Native Structures to Peptidomimetics, Peptide-Conjugates, and Peptide-Nanoparticles
Special Issue in Antibiotics: Antibiotic Resistance: From the Bench to Patients
Special Issue in Methods and Protocols: Feature Issue on the Development of Novel Cutting Edge Protocols

Dr. Yaroslav A. Andreev E-Mail Website 


Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, RAS, GSP-7, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Interests: neuronal receptors, peptides, biologically active substances, neurons, inflammation, pain, recombinant proteins, ASIC channels, TRP channels, antimicrobial peptides
Prof. Dr. Hugo Rubén Arias E-Mail 


Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, California Northstate University, 9700 W. Taron Dr., Elk Grove, CA 95757, USA
Interests: acetylcholine nicotinic receptors; structure-function relationship; noncompetitive antagonists; localization of binding sites; fluorescence spectroscopy; equilibrium binding
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Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Drugs and Ion Channels
Prof. Francesc Xavier Avilés Puigvert E-Mail Website 


Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
Interests: proteolytic enzymes (proteases); enzyme inhibitors; proteomics; structural biology; protein engineering; drug discovery; biotechnology and biomedicine of natural and synthetic ligands of enzymes
Prof. Dr. Bill J. Baker E-Mail Website 


Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CHE 205, Tampa, FL 33620-5250, USA
Interests: biodiscovery; cold-water chemistry; infectious disease drug discovery; marine invertebrates, fungi, algae; chemical ecology
Prof. Asunción Barbero E-Mail Website 


Departamento de Química Orgánica, Valladolid, Spain
Interests: synthesis of heterocycles; organosilanos; natural products; stereoselective cyclizations
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Molecules: Current Advances in Synthetic Bioheterocyclic Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Gilles Barnathan E-Mail 


College of Pharmacy, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
Interests: marine lipids with biological activity and with interest in human health and nutrition; bioactive glycolipids; fatty acid and sterol compositions; marine sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids; analytical methods in structure determination and lipidomics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Lipids
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Lipids with Biological Interest
Prof. Dr. Colin Barrow E-Mail Website 


Centre for Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
Interests: marine bioactives; lipases; omega-3; nanomaterials; graphene; biotechnology
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Functional Food
Special Issue in Molecules: Lipases and Lipases Modification
Special Issue in Marine Drugs: Marine Natural Product Studies in Australia