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Science 17 September 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5691, p. 1691
DOI: 10.1126/science.305.5691.1691b
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National Cancer Institute (NCI) officials this week announced plans to spend $144 million over 5 years on nanotechnology efforts to fight cancer (Science, 23 July, p. 461). About $90 million will be used to establish at least five new multi-university centers of excellence over the next year aimed at using nanosized particles to create novel diagnostic, therapeutic, and imaging techniques. Another $38 million will flow to individual investigators and $16 million to training awards.

NCI has supported nano projects for the last 6 years, and most of the initiative's funds will come from repackaging existing efforts and terminating current programs, says NCI deputy director Anna Barker. Still, the time is right for such an effort, says chemist Richard Smalley of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Nanotechnology gives researchers a bevy of new approaches to targeting specific cells within the body, he says: "There is a brave new world out there for diagnosis and treatment."




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