With the intention to obtain a therapeutic impact, many medicine have to achieve particular mobile compartments. Nanoscale drug supply programs lengthen the circulation time, cut back hostile results and thus enhance tolerability in comparison with systemic administration. We’ve developed two sorts of albumin-coated nanocarriers outfitted with built-in dyes to trace their mobile uptake and intracellular enzymatic opening. Utilizing the accepted antiprotozoal drug and STAT3 inhibitor Atovaquone (Ato) as prototype for a hydrophobic small molecule, we present that Ato-loaded ovalbumin-coated nanocapsules (Ato-nCap) preferentially enter human myeloid cells. In distinction, Ato nanocrystals coated with human serum albumin (Ato-nCry) distribute their cargo in all completely different immune cell sorts, together with T and B cells. By measuring the impact of Ato nanocarriers on induced STAT3 phosphorylation in IL-10-primed human dendritic cells and constitutive STAT3 phosphorylation in human melanoma cells, we display that the intracellular Ato launch is especially efficient from Ato nanocrystals and fewer poisonous than equal doses of free drug. These new nanocarriers thus characterize efficient programs for intracellular drug supply.