Nanoparticles in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years we have witnessed the development of a plethora of nanoparticles for application in disease diagnosis and therapy. The design and synthesis of novel nanoparticles present an exciting challenge for researchers active in the fields of materials science, bioengineering, chemistry, pharmacology, physics and medicine, as the endpoint of the quest for an improved theranostic nanoparticle agent will be the earlier diagnosis and/or therapy of diseases with great socio-economic impact, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. The current Special Issue of Pharmaceutics entitled” Nanoparticles in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications” provides a collection of works focusing on the development of innovative nanoparticle systems for application either as imaging agents for various biomedical imaging modalities, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), or for therapeutic applications, such as Hyperthermia (HT), Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) or Radionuclide Therapy. Special attention will be given to review articles or original contributions focusing on nanoparticles with both diagnostic and therapeutic potential (e.g., drug-loaded nanoparticles with biomedical imaging capacity or magnetic nanoparticles for MRI diagnosis and magnetic hyperthermia of cancer).

It is our pleasure to invite you to send your contributions (full research papers, review articles, communications) to this Special Issue.

Dr. Charalampos Tsoukalas
Dr. Penelope Bouziotis
Guest Editors

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