Perspectives in Nanotechnology Based Innovative Applications in Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious and Non-infectious Disease
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 9279
Special Issue Editors
Interests: laser; two photon spectroscopy; photoacoustic Imaging; surface enhanced raman spectroscopy; ultrasound; cancer detection and therapy; nanotechnology; simulations; gold nanoparticles
Interests: nanotechnology; theoretical chemistry and simulations; modelling; nano and microbubbles; contrast agents; ultrasound
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nearly all scientific and technological areas are feeling the benefits of the introduction of nanotechnology through an integrated approach. The human population in today’s world suffers from several diseases and the available medication and therapies are found to be insufficient both for diagnosis and complete cure. Around three decades ago, the term “nanomedicine” was introduced when it was found that the convergence of nanotechnology and medicine can revolutionize the way we detect and treat damage to the human body and diseases in the future. Some techniques, such targeted drug delivery and gene therapy or the early detection and diagnosis of cancer, are already in use while others are at various stages of testing and making remarkable progress toward becoming a reality. Our main focus is on engineered nanoparticles that hold significant promise to improve disease diagnosis and treatment specificity. A variety of nanomaterials, such as micelles, liposomes, polymeric nanoparticles, lipid-based nanoparticles, carbon-based nanoparticles, metal, and ceramic nanoparticles, have displayed enhanced performance in diagnosing and improving the treatment of various diseases, as well as delivering drugs and genes in a targeted way directly at the site of the disease. This reduces damage to healthy tissue many-fold and also allows for the early detection of disease. This Special Issue aims to discuss and present recent advances in nanomedicine in the treatment, diagnosis, and detection of all types of infectious and non-infectious diseases around the globe. The editors are pleased to invite high-quality, communications, original research articles (experiments, theoretical calculations, and modelling), reviews, and mini reviews from different research fields that provide the latest developments, new insights, protocols, results, and greater understanding in this broad field.
Dr. Sathiyamoorthy Krishnan
Dr. Amin Jafari Sojahrood
Dr. Anshuman Jakhmola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomedicine
- targeted drug delivery
- nanoparticles
- cancer therapy
- biocompatibility
- photothermal therapy
- nanorobotics
- nano vaccines
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