title: Nanomedicine: developing smarter therapeutic and diagnostic modalities.
abstract: The early impact of nanotechnology on medicine is beginning to get realized, with novel nanoscale therapeutic and diagnostic modalities under development or in clinical practice today. In this commentary the field of "nanomedicine" is briefly reviewed form the perspective of where we were; where we are today; and where we are likely to go tomorrow.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. ofarokhzad@partners.org
authors.forename: Omid C
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Farokhzad
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Langer
mesh_terms: D019937:Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures / Q000639:trends*; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000639:trends*; D013812:Therapeutics / Q000639:trends*