First Meeting of Nanomedicine Society

The American Academy of Nanomedicine (AANM, Washington, DC, USA) held its first annual meeting at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA) on August 15 and 16, 2005.

Founded in early 2005, the AANM is an international society created to advance both clinical applications and research in the field of nanomedicine. The two-day program focused on the applications of nanomedicine in a variety of fields including diagnostic, clinical, oncology, pharmacology, basic and experimental nanomedicine, and the policy and commercialization of nanomedicine.

The keynote speaker was James Baker, Jr., M.D., from the Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA), who lectured on "What is Nanomedicine?” He further described how nanoscale synthetic materials with biologic systems provide both great promises and risks for biologic sciences.

The second address was given by Dr. Ueli Aebi from the U.S. National Center of Competence in Research, Mueller Institute (Basel, Switzerland), in a lecture entitled "Imaging, Measuring, and Manipulating Living Matter by Minimally Invasive Nanoprobes.”

AANM's membership represents basic and clinical investigators, molecular biologists, engineers, physicians, and others with an interest in the field. It is the only society devoted specifically to the emerging field of nanomedicine. The Academy's first meeting provided a forum to exchange ideas, communicate new findings, and encouraged collaboration among the diverse disciplines represented in nanomedicine.




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