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Biopharmaceutics; targeted drug delivery; nanotechnology (polymers, dendrimers, liposomes, etc.) for detection and treatment of various pathological conditions including cancer, hypoxia and fibrosis; molecular targeting; non-viral nanoscale-based delivery of antisense oligonucleotides, siRNA and peptides; mechanisms of multidrug resistance; intracellular fate and molecular mechanisms of action of anticancer drugs: apoptosis and necrosis, signal transduction, antiapoptotic cellular defensive mechanisms; use of macromolecules for drug delivery; preclinical evaluation of anticancer drugs; tumor hypoxia; modulation of cell death mechanisms during hypoxia.