Drug Delivery

Nanotechnology holds powerful future, executive says

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, November 9th, 2006

David Rejeski, director of Woodrow Wilson Center's Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, said in a presentation at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) first major public meeting on regulating products containing nanotechnology materials that nanotechnology holds great promise.

"Thanks to the promise of nanotechnology, people will benefit from fantastic new prescription drugs and from better ways of getting existing pharmaceuticals into the body for more effective disease treatments. But new nano-enabled drugs and medical devices also place new burdens on an oversight agency that is already stretched extremely thin," said

Rejeski stated that...

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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2006-11-09)

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