Development of Advanced Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Devices: Insights into a Novel Concept of Personalized Medicine
A special issue of Journal of Nanotheranostics (ISSN 2624-845X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 8864
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanomedicine; nanotechnology; nanomaterials; microfabrication; mechanobiology; regeneration; medical devices; cancer
Interests: optical microscopy; fluorescence microscopy; mesenchymal stem cells; mechanobiology; 3D cell growth; micro/nanostructured scaffold
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, nanomaterials have been increasingly applied to a wide range of scientific fields. Importantly, they have gained recognition as fundamental tools for human health improvement. Many efforts have been put into nanotechnology for creating biocompatible multifunctional devices such as nanosensors and advanced noninvasive devices such as wearable electronics. Researchers have developed many platforms for drug delivery and targeted therapy, and imaging techniques, simultaneously providing diagnosis and therapy, have greatly revolutionized conventional medicine. This is defined as nanotheranostics that integrates the advantages of stimuli-responsive nanomaterials, nanocarriers actively targeting diseased tissues, and nanoparticles designed for phototherapy and immunotherapy applications. Nanomedicine has been established as a new discipline achieving many ambitious objectives, displaying its beneficial effects on human well-being and opening the way towards personalized medicine.
This sector represents the new frontier of healthcare: the possibility of stratifying patients in different groups by diagnostic testing and providing them with individual therapies based on their specific molecular and genetic fingerprints has been revealed as invaluable. Importantly, medicine has also been revolutionized by the development of big data analysis, and nowadays many diseases may be prevented, allowing early-stage detection, or may be more easily followed up during therapy.
Dr. Chiara Martinelli
Guest Editor
Dr. Emanuela Jacchetti
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanomaterials
- multifunctional devices
- nanomedicine
- theranostics
- drug delivery
- targeted therapy
- personalized medicine
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