Bioinspired materials are well known for their intelligent and reversible responding ability to external stimulus in biosystems. Recently, many new bioinspired concepts and technologies are currently under development such as bioinspired systems for active molecules delivery, gecko-inspired adhesives, self-healing bioinspired materials, fabrication of muscles, and advanced photonic structured materials. The studies of advanced bioinspired materials for drug, protein, and gene delivery systems are the frontiers of scientific research nowadays, of which the developments are significant to probe the profound mysteries of life science and clarify the molecular mechanisms of diseases and treatments. Furthermore, new technologies enable early-stage diagnosis and afford treatments where medicine is not effective. The present special issue aims to introduce and highlights the recent cutting-edge advances of bioinspired materials in drug, protein, and gene delivery systems. We invite investigators to contribute original research or review articles to introduce the achievements in the novel preparative methods, functional properties evaluation, and clinical applications of bioinspired materials for drug, protein, and gene delivery systems. We are particularly interested to stimulate the continuing efforts in the better understanding of molecular design of bioinspired materials and of the molecular mechanism, and how bioinspired materials play their important roles in the bioactive agents' delivery systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• New strategies for the design and preparation of bioinspired materials
• Recent advances of structural specific bioinspired materials designed for DNA and siRNA delivery
• Novel preparative methods and devices of bioinspired materials in drug delivery systems
• Multifunctional biomaterials and their bioinspired systems for bioactive molecule delivery
• Bioinspired materials for protein delivery in therapeutics, cells, and tissue regeneration
• Molecular signaling mechanism of host-materials interactions
• Perspectives of bioinspired materials in regenerative medicine

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