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Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery Volume 5, 2008 - Issue 9
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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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Abstract

The pipelines of pharmaceutical companies are in many cases believed to be drying up and many blockbuster drugs are expected to be coming off patent in the near term. The application of nanotechnology to drug delivery is widely expected to create novel therapeutics capable of changing the landscape for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. This editorial highlights the nanotechnology platforms that are under development or in clinical use today, and points to exciting areas of opportunity where nanotechnology may enable the development of more effective and safer targeted therapeutics for a myriad of clinical applications.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants CA119349 and EB003647 and Koch–Prostate Cancer Foundation Award in Nanotherapeutics.

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