title: The 4th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Nanomedicine.
abstract: The 4th Conference of the American Society for Nanomedicine is being held March 28-30, 2014 at the Universities at Shady Grove, Rockville, Maryland. The meeting's theme is on defining the role of nanomedicines for nervous system diagnostics and disease but balanced by broad and timely topics for nanotechnology. Nanoneuromedicine, as defined by the development of small drug formulations for the diagnosis and treatment of degenerative, inflammatory, infectious, vascular, addictive, behavioral and metabolic disorders of the nervous system, will provide a focus for each of the scientific sessions. This research is interdisciplinary and it's in its infancy. The hurdles that preclude translation from bench to bedside would include its delivery across the blood brain barrier, limiting nervous system toxicities, and improving drug targeting to diseased brain subregions. These all pose challenges. Multidisciplinary works in neuroscience (neurobiology, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, and neuroinflammation), bioimaging, and polymer chemistry to facilitate outcomes for formulation manufacture will be vigorously discussed. How drugs reach sites of action need include neural cell specific subcellular compartments. The ASNM meeting will showcase nanoneuromedicine research from leading investigators of divergent scientific backgrounds who define this new field. It will also serve as an incubator for developing investigators and broad new field discoveries. Welcome to the conference and enjoy!
authors.affiliation: 985880 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198-5880, hegendel@unmc.edu.
authors.forename: Howard E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Gendelman
authors.forename: Lajos P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Balogh
authors.forename: Raj
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bawa
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bradbury
authors.forename: Esther H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Wah
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: Omid
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Farokhzad
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Foldvari
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lanza
authors.forename: Kuan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008396:Maryland; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000639:trends*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States