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In 2011, Theranostics was launched with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, and it is now firmly established as a highly respected and high-impact journal in its broad and important field. In 2017, its sister journal Nanotheranostics was also launched and Dr. Chen served as inaugural Editor-in-Chief. I was privileged to be asked by Shawn if I would be willing to serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Nanotheranostics in the fall of 2017, because of his heavy workload in Theranostics. I accepted and have been in charge of handling the new submissions since November 2017. Since then, Shawn has been completing the submissions he had initially received, while also providing me with guidance in my new role. This is now a good time to discuss the focus of the new journal and a few aspects that should make Nanotheranostics attractive for prospective authors: