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Seven challenges for nanomedicine

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Nanomedicine offers new opportunities to fight diseases but a global effort is needed to safely translate laboratory innovation to the clinic. Seven priority areas have been identified for this endeavour.

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Figure 1: Negotiating with the body's defence systems.
Figure 2: A representation of the proposed public–private partnership among the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and members of the Alliance for NanoHealth (ANH).

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  1. The Office of the Commissioner, Food & Drug Administration, Rockville, 20857, Maryland, USA

    Wendy R. Sanhai

  2. Nanomedicine, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    Jason H. Sakamoto & Mauro Ferrari

  3. Office of Science and Health Coordination, Food & Drug Administration, Rockville, 20857, Maryland, USA

    Richard Canady

  4. Department of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    Mauro Ferrari

  5. Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, 77005, Texas, USA

    Mauro Ferrari

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Sanhai, W., Sakamoto, J., Canady, R. et al. Seven challenges for nanomedicine. Nature Nanotech 3, 242–244 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.114

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