Theranostic Radiopharmaceuticals: Current Status and Perspectives
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Targeting and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 205
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioactive compounds; natural; synthetic; computational modeling studies; gene expression; nanoparticles; drugs delivery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Theranostics are nano-sized or molecular-level agents serving both diagnosis and therapy. Structurally, they are drug delivery systems integrated with molecular or targeted imaging agents. Theranostics are becoming popular because they are targeted therapeutics and can be used with no or minimal changes for diagnostic imaging to aid in precision medicine. Theranostics in nuclear medicine includes the use and application of two identical or very closely related radiopharmaceuticals for therapy and diagnosis. In oncology, tumor-specific substrates, receptor ligands, or drugs can serve as leads for theranostic development when labeled with specific radionuclides for imaging or therapy.
I am pleased to invite you to contribute a manuscript to this Special Issue, “Theranostic radiopharmaceuticals: current status and perspectives”. The goal of this Special Issue is to present the development of new drugs for theranostic applications, where imaging and therapeutic molecules should be parts of a single platform functionalized with various moieties for the specific recognition of molecular targets, imaging markers, and therapeutic compounds.
In this Special Issue, original research articles on and reviews of new aspects of theranostics drugs that lead cancer treatment toward precision, individuality, and safety are welcome.
It would be my pleasure to receive your manuscripts.
Prof. Dr. Tatjana P. Stanojković
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- theranostics
- radiopharmaceuticals
- radiotheranostics
- nanoparticles
- receptor ligands
- targeted radioligand therapy
