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We would like to share our excitement and optimism as Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of this new journal specifically created for scientists, engineers, physicians, qnd clinicians interested in the field of nanomedicine. We have seen unprecedented advances in the field of nanotechnology during the last 2 decades, and the impact of this emerging technology is seen in all scientific fields.

In 1959, Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman predicted the emergence of a new science called “nanotechnology.” Nanotechnology deals with structures 1 to 100 nm in scale. Sometimes nanoscale is extended into the micrometer level. We have just started to witness the application of this cutting-edge technology in medicine. It will have a profound impact on future medical practice. Nanomedicine is the medical diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment at the level of single molecules or molecular assemblies that provide structure, control, signaling, homeostasis, and motility in cells, that is, at the “nano” scale of about 100 nm or less.

There have been many scientific and technological advances in both the physical and biological sciences over the past several years. Nanomedicine is an important new concept in combining nanotechnology and medicine and it provides a new direction for development in those research areas. For example, new tools are being developed that permit imaging of structures at a molecular level, and high-speed measurement of the dynamic behavior of these molecular assemblies is developing. The forces produced by molecular machines as well as the forces needed to disrupt them are undergoing.

The long-term goal of nanomedicine research is to quantitatively characterize the molecular-scale components, or nanomachinery, of living cells and to precisely control and manipulate these molecular and supramolecular assemblies in living cells to improve human health. Nanomedicine will exploit and build upon other research findings in nanotechnology and apply it to the study of molecular systems in living cells that contain a multitude of nanoscale structures, such as membrane transporters, processes such as self-assembly of protein–nucleic acid complexes, and nanomachines such as molecular motors.

The benefits of nanomedicine include dramatically expanded knowledge of the human genome, a greater understanding of the pathophysiology of specific diseases at the molecular scale, more specific treatment of diseases, and the ability to understand the dynamic behavior of dysfunctional cellular machinery in the context of the total cell machinery.

The journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine was specifically created to provide researchers and clinicians with a peer-reviewed, indexed, international forum for their work. Through the pages of Nanomedicine we can expand the growing dialogue among researchers in many disciplines that are part of nanomedicine. Nanomedicine provides a new forum for researchers around the world to share their discoveries and applications in this exciting new field of medicine.

Each issue of the journal will publish basic, clinical, and engineering research in the area of nanotechnology in biology and medicine. Areas of particular interest will include, but are not limited to, diagnostic, engineering, experimental, genetic, and pharmacologic nanomedicine; commercialization of research; and ethics.

As the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor we invite you to submit your papers to the journal.

Sincerely,