A little perspective might be helpful to the reader to better understand the somewhat unusual professional circumstances that led to the writing of this book. This book has been a labor of love for over eight years, but the field of nanomedicine started for me in 2000 when I and others were invited by NASA (John Hines was my excellent program officer) to invent some nanomedicine for the Mars mission. I was then a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, just down the road from Johnson Space Center. I became one of the first researchers in the United States to be funded for a grant on nanomedicine. The book’s nanomedicine origins come from two funding sources – NASA and the National Cancer Institute – in what was a bold joint initiative at the time by those two funding entities.
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