Delivery , detection and development in nanomedicine – CONFERENCE SCENE

The Fourth International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium (NanoDDS’06; www.nanodds.org/) was held in Omaha, NE, USA, from October 8 to 10, 2006, to ‘provide an overview of the latest advances in all aspects of nanomedicine and drug delivery’ and attracted nearly 160 registered participants from 16 countries, 24 leading experts as guest speakers and over 80 poster presentations. The Symposium was chaired by Professor Alexander (Sasha) Kabanov from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC; NE, USA), bringing the conference full circle since it was first organized in Omaha by Dr Kabanov and Dr Kataoka as a mini-symposium on ‘Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery’ at UNMC in January 2003 (www.unmc.edu/pharmacy/nanomedicine/).