Dr Namdev Dhas, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, MCOPS along with Dr Yashwant Pathak, Dr Jayvadan Patel and Dr Vipulkumar Patel published an edited book by CRC press on Site-specific Cancer Nanotheranostics: A Microenvironment-responsive Approach. This book presents an overview of tumor microenvironment, their challenges and opportunities in the development of stimuli-responsive and site-specific delivery nanoplatforms and their related strategies for cancer treatment. The book also addresses the development of smart nanoparticles or smart materials and their fabrication chemistries. Additionally, the compatibility of therapeutic moieties with smart materials along with any other synergistic material is also discussed in fabricating smart nano-particulate system. The book also includes characterization techniques which needs to be taken into consideration for evaluating efficiency of fabricated nanoparticles, their toxicology, regulatory aspects, and commercialization.

This book focuses on the following major aspects of emerging strategies for tumor microenvironment responsive nanoplatforms :

i.          Introduction to Nanoparticles and tumor microenvironment

ii.         Introduction to materials and their chemistries of tumor microenvironment responsive materials/ delivery platforms

iii.        Endogenous stimuli–responsive nanoplatforms

iv.        Exogenous stimuli–responsive nanoplatforms

v.         Targeting materials and strategies in cancer therapy

vi.        Characterization techniques for stimuli-responsive delivery nanoplatforms

vii.       Toxicity and regulatory aspects

viii.      Future opportunities and Challenges

This edited book presents 21 chapters written by leading authors who are contributing to this area of research in their respective institutions.