Founded 2012 Location Liverpool | Type Nanomedicine society Area served Nanomedicine | |
Founders Chair (Professor Andrew Owen) and Vice Chair (Professor Steve Rannard) Mission The direct explanation of the ongoing science and commercial developments to allow the public to understand and stay in touch with nanomedicine research as it impacts future global healthcare. | ||
The British Society for Nanomedicine (BSNM) is the primary UK nanomedicine society. Members of the society are drawn from the general public, academia, industry, regulatory agencies and healthcare professionals. The Society is a registered charity (Charity number 1151497) whose mission includes the direct explanation of the ongoing science and commercial developments to allow the public to understand and stay in touch with nanomedicine research as it impacts future global healthcare. The society is also actively involved in the organisation of multidisciplinary scientific meetings to encourage dissemination of the latest advances and foster collaboration. Nanomedicine involves the application of nanotechnology to medicine for either improved drug delivery, diagnostics or regenerative medicine applications. This scientific discipline is highly multidisciplinary involving chemists, pharmacologists, biologists, biochemists, physicists, engineers and clinicians.
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History
The Society was founded in 2012, in Liverpool at its inaugural meeting that was attended by over 70 scientists from different disciplines from around the globe. The motivation for creation of the society originated by the current Chair (Professor Andrew Owen) and Vice Chair (Professor Steve Rannard) of the board of trustees from the University of Liverpool, with strong support from colleagues at Swansea University (Professor Steve Conlan) and Herriot Watt University (Professor Vicki Stone). The inaugural meeting attracted delegates from around the world including active board members for the American Society for Nanomedicine (ASNM) and the European Foundation for Clinical Nanomedicine (CLINAM).
Publication
The British Society For Nanomedicine publishes a journal which promotes nanomedicine:
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Nanomedicine (JOIN) is published by Wiley