Nanomedical therapies have extensively employed PEG for a plethora of applications. Its primacy within current biomedical research has stemmed from PEGs ability to solubilize organic compounds within aqueous solutions while exhibiting biocompatibility and exceptional in vivo stability. Furthermore, PEG has been shown to decrease opsonization creating a �stealth� effect for itself and associated compounds. These features combined with its tremendous commercial availability and synthetic amenability has made PEG an ideal choice for therapeutic delivery systems, hydrogels and many other biological applications. However, since PEG lacks natural remediation clinicians are now beginning to demand a biodegradable analogue. Herein, progress towards creation of water soluble degradable controlled polymers is presented.

Biodegradable water soluble polymers as an alternative to PEG

245th National Meeting (2013)

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