International Nanomedicine Society

The American Academy of Nanomedicine (Washington, DC, USA), an international society created to advance clinical applications and research in the field of nanomedicine, has announced its launch.

The academy is a professional membership organization representing basic and clinical investigators, engineers, molecular biologists, physicians, and others with an interest in the field, and is the only society devoted specifically to the emerging field of nanomedicine. The academy will offer a venue to exchange ideas, communicate new findings, and encourage collaboration among the diverse fields represented in nanomedicine.

Nanomedicine, an extension of nanotechnology, refers to highly specific medical intervention at the molecular level for curing disease or repairing injured tissues, such as nerve, bone, or muscle. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, too small to be seen with a traditional laboratory microscope. Nanomedicine uses molecular machine systems to tackle medical problems, and uses molecular knowledge to maintain and improve human health at the molecular level. Nanomedicine has remarkable and far-reaching implications for the medical profession, for the definition of disease, for the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions including aging, and for the improvement and extension of natural human biological structure and function.

"We are breaking new ground,” said Dr. Chiming Wei, director of the Cardiothoracic-Renal Molecular Research Program at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD, USA), who leads the steering committee organizing the launch effort. "The academy will provide a link between the academic research communities in the field of nanomedicine and help foster better communication in the field.”

"We are proud to be bringing together the leading minds in the emerging field of nanomedicine and are very excited by the enormous scientific developments in this area, as well as the interest in the Academy's upcoming First Annual Meeting,” said Karen Hasson, the executive director of the academy.

The academy will hold its first annual meeting at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA), August 15-16, 2005.




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