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Editorial

Nanotechnology for drug delivery: the perfect partnership

Omid C Farokhzad Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, 75 Francis Street, CWN-L1, Boston, MA 02115, USA +1 617 732 6093; +1 617 730 2801; [email protected]
Pages 927-929 | Published online: 29 Aug 2008

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