Dear COSTers,
following our very successful WG2 Conference, our WG2 leader and vice-leader, Dr. Ivana Vinković Vrček and Dr. Evgeny Apartsin, are the Editors in charge of the following Book: Handbook for physicochemical characterisation of nanopharmaceuticals; Subtitle: Fundamentals, protocols, tips and tricks for facilitating quality, efficacy and safety evaluation of nano-enabled medical products, planned in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 project Phoenix “Open InnovationTest Bed for Enabling Nano-pharmaceutical Innovative Products”

The Book will be submitted for publication by The Royal Society of Chemistry, within the Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Series edited by our Action Member Prof. Nguyen TK Thanh, University College London, UK.

Each Book chapter should have the same design and, following the style of e.g., Nature Protocols, should describe:
• Physico-chemical fundamentals of a technique
• Concise overview of its applications in nanomedicine
• Description of equipment used (including high-throughput models, if exist)
• Structure of readouts (in which form raw data are acquired and how they are treated)
• What information is obtained and what does it mean
• Troubleshooting
• Perspectives

Ivana and Evgeny will prepare the template to be strictly followed upon Chapter preparation.

If you intend to commit to this great initiative, please contact Ivana () or Evgeny () for further info and actions.

Looking forward to your contributions to this great CA17140 initiative!