Books in the Jenny Stanford Series on Biomedical Nanotechnology series

This book presents the advances in the use of lipid-based and inorganic nanomaterials for medical imaging, diagnosis, theranostics, and drug delivery. The materials discussed include liposome-scaffold systems, elastic liposomes, targeted liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, lipoproteins.

Biomedical nanosensors play a central role in the development of diagnostics and therapeutics for early detection and treatment of diseases. This book addresses nanomaterials, constituting nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanotubes of inorganic as well as polymeric composition of nano and micro scale dimensions as sensing and therapeutic agents.

Progress in nanotechnology has resulted in the design and synthesis of many new types of nanoparticles. This book describes reviews on the application of these nanoparticles for in vivo medical imaging and drug delivery. It covers the research on the use of nanoparticles for in vivo diagnostic medical imaging and therapy.

This handbook, written by leading international experts, provides an overview of the state of the art of safety assessment of nanomaterials in context of their application in nanomedicine. The volume includes a historical perspective on the development of nanomedicine(s) and their regulation, and a personal view of the future of (nano)medicine by Patrick Hunziker, president of the European Society of Nanomedicine. The volume includes a series of chapters on organ-specific toxicities of nanomaterials, including pulmonary and cardiovascular toxicity, neurotoxicity, dermatotoxicity, and reproductive toxicity, as well as a discussion on immunotoxicity and genotoxicity.