Glimpses of the Medicine of Tomorrow
Summary
The purpose of the Forum is to boost the networking of nanotech users and suppliers in Hessen and beyond, and to help advance the commercialization of product and process developments.According to Jaeger, “Medicine and pharmaceuticals are the fields in which we see the greatest potential for nanotechnology.” The age of “nanomedicine”, he claimed, could be said to have started once for all in January 2008, when authorization was granted for the first time to a medicament which had been optimized by nanotechnology.### Wiesbaden, Germany, November 28, 2009 --( PR.com )-- As “Germany’s pharmacy”, Hessen possesses a strong chemical and pharmaceutical industry and a high-excellence research landscape.The advantages for patients are better possibilities for diagnosis, and therapies with fewer side effects.Selected keynote talks during the course of the Forum offered an overall view of the importance of the nanosciences for medicine and pharmacy.In the exhibition “Marktplatz Nanotech”, which ran side by side with the talks, more than thirty companies, universities, institutes and networks presented their products, services and research projects.The Aktionslinie Hessen-Nanotech (www.hessen-nanotech.de) is an economic promotion measure of the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Transport, Urban and Regional Development.