Call for Papers

Special Issues on Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) utilizes photosensitizer (PS) together with irradiation light of specific wavelength interacting with oxygen to generate cytotoxic reactive oxygen species, which has been approved for the treatment of several malignant and non-malignant pathologies. Most recently, the enhanced PDT were achieved by using novel nano-PSs, new light sources, oxygen supply and synergistic therapy. Most recently, PDT was widely used in the field of antibacterial, antimicrobial and anti-biofilm activities.

The aim of this special issue is to highlight the latest developments in both fundamental mechanisms and clinical applications for enhanced PDT. This special issue calls for PDT experts to report the most recent advances and to explore the new activities and applications for PDT. Research papers, review articles, short communications and clinical case studies are welcome. Manuscripts will be internationally peer-reviewed. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but are not limited to the following:

• Multifunctional nano-photosensitizer

• Novel drug delivery system for photosensitizer

• New light source

• Photodynamic mechanisms

• Synergistic therapy

• Vascular-targeting PDT

• Optical spectroscopy and imaging for monitoring dosimetry

• Enhanced PDT

• Preclinical and clinical applications

Submission deadline: April 1, 2022

Planned publication date: July, 2022

Submission format

Authors should use the Latex or MS-Word style files. For more details, please visithttps://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jiohs

JIOHS is indexed by SCIE (IF 1.770, JCR 2020). JIOHS has been a fully open-access journal since 2013.

Feature Editors:

Buhong Li

School ofPhotonics and Electronic Engineering,Fujian Normal University

Fuzhou 350117, China

E-mail:bhli@fjnu.edu.cn

Lothar Lilge

Departmentof Medical Biophysics, University of TorontoandOntario Cancer Institute

Toronto M5G 2M9, Canada

E-mail:Lothar.Lilge@uhnresearch.ca