Integrative Biomedical Materials

Two photon-responsive gold nanocapsules enable targeted photothermal hyperthermia of chemoresistant melanoma: injection-route-dependent efficacy and renal evidence of fragment clearance† Melanoma is a highly aggressive skin cancer that often develops resistance to chemotherapy, underscoring the need for new treatment strategies.

1. Introduction Nanomedicine can be considered as the field where nanoscience interacts with life for the development of nanotechnology-enabled health products (NHPs) (1). This area has become one of the most promising disciplines of the 21st century. In fact, the market size of NHPs had an estimated value of 53 billion United States Dollars (USD) in 2009 and a predicted projection of approximately 334 billion USD by 2025 (around a 630% increase) (2).

Francisco Diego Rodríguez-Gómez1, 2, Dominique Monferrer3, Oriol Penon1 and Pilar Rivera-Gil2* 1Asphalion, Spain 2Integrative Biomedical Materials and Nanomedicine Lab, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain 3Independent researcher, Spain The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.