TY - JOUR
T1 - Bionanoscience in health and medicine
AU - Bashir, Rashid
N1 - Funding Information:
Since bionanoscience is an enabl ing field, the applications can be crosscutting and many, and hence there is room for researchers from many fields to contribute. In these interdisciplinary fields of endeavors, research and graduate education oc curs across many traditional depart ments and disciplines. This is Bteam science[ in its true spirit, where working together with researchers from different backgrounds has the potential to result in major break throughs. The researchers have to not only be grounded in disciplinary ex cellence but also be able to work with colleagues from other disciplines. Interdisciplinary graduate training program grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health provide an excel lent mechanism for training of this cadre of interdisciplinary researchers of tomorrow at the nexus of disci plines. Research in bionanosciences in academic institutions occurs in in terdisciplinary labs and groups and not in any one department. The tradi tional departmental boundaries do not exist in this field, especially at the graduate level.
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - Extensive research and development is taking place in diagnostics, therapeutics, and engineering of biological systems from molecular to tissue scale. In the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, researchers from various disciplines are funded to work together on applications of nanotechnology in cancer for diagnostics, therapeutics, and to train the next generation of leaders to work in this critically important area for the nation and the world. Advance in bionanosciences for early diagnostics and targeted personalized therapeutics can provide new solutions for management and eradication of cancer and other diseases. Delivering specific drug molecules to specific sites of interest in the body is a goal of therapeutic applications of bionanotechnology. Much progress has also been made in design and engineering of molecular constructs from DNA, the basic building blocks of life.
AB - Extensive research and development is taking place in diagnostics, therapeutics, and engineering of biological systems from molecular to tissue scale. In the National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, researchers from various disciplines are funded to work together on applications of nanotechnology in cancer for diagnostics, therapeutics, and to train the next generation of leaders to work in this critically important area for the nation and the world. Advance in bionanosciences for early diagnostics and targeted personalized therapeutics can provide new solutions for management and eradication of cancer and other diseases. Delivering specific drug molecules to specific sites of interest in the body is a goal of therapeutic applications of bionanotechnology. Much progress has also been made in design and engineering of molecular constructs from DNA, the basic building blocks of life.
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U2 - 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2187362
DO - 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2187362
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84860703638
SN - 0018-9219
VL - 100
SP - 1015
EP - 1016
JO - Proceedings of the IEEE
JF - Proceedings of the IEEE
IS - 5
M1 - 6183039
ER -