Biomedical Nanoengineering for Nanomedicine

Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology in prevention, diagnostics and treatment of diseases. In this handbook, the term “Biomedical Nanoengineering” is used to address the engineering issues in the biomedical applications of nanomaterials and nanodevices. In October 2003, the NIH announced the NanoMedicine Initiative (NMI) [1]. The NMI envisions, for example, the biomedical nanodevices or nanosystems to search out and destroy the very first cancer cells of a tumor developing in the body, the biological nanomachines to remove and replace the cell’s broken part, and the molecule-sized pumps to deliver life-saving medicines precisely where they are needed in the human body.