Special Issue: Nanomedicine: Therapeutic Applications

Nanomedicine is considered to be one of the most promising technologies of the 21st century and has broadly developed as the application of nanotechnology to medicine. The therapeutic applications of nanomedicine have increased exponentially to offer impressive options for various health and medicinal issues in recent years. Many different systems and strategies of considerable potential for enabling more effective and less toxic therapeutic interventions have been investigated in the nanomedicine field with significant efforts and progress. In this issue of Advanced Therapeutics, we are proud to present these distinguish articles, which integrate the strengths of scientists from life science, chemistry, medicine, and pharmacy fields, to comprehensively introduce the development of compositions, syntheses, and biomedical applications of nanomaterials for disease therapy. We are deeply appreciative of the opportunity afforded by Advanced Therapeutics to organize this special issue. The special issue, featuring 5 reviews, 2 full papers, 1 communication, and 1 progress report, convers a broad spectrum of the therapeutic nanomaterials including biological materials, catalytical materials, photonic/optical materials, as well as the advanced applications of modern organic/inorganic hybrid materials. The guest editors of this special issue are honored by the support given by the contributors, with particular acknowledgement to Prof. Alfonso E. Garcia-Bennett fromMacquarie University, Prof. Yaping Li and Zhiwen Zhang from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences the, Prof. Xiaogang Qu from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy