Accelerating Advances in Science, Engineering, and Medicine through Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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en years ago this month, we started working on ACS Nano with the goal of moving nanoscience and nanotechnology forward by going deep into the work that we publish in comprehensive articles and in forwardlooking pieces that lay out the road ahead, particularly the challenges and opportunities to be addressed.1 We also explore the impact of nanoscience and nanotechnology on other fields, leveraging the emphases on interdisciplinary communications, problem solving, and tool development that have grown organically as our field has advanced. At ACS Nano, we operate differently than other journals in that our editors, advisors, and staff are in constant communication, collaborating to understand where our field is going and where we can have impact beyond nanoscience and nanotechnology. We then do our best to stimulate and to accelerate this activity by drawing attention to what is being and could be done.
Figure 1. Participants at the ACS Nano Kavli Futures Symposium, held at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Back row: Dr. Neus Feliu-Torres, Karolinska Institute and Philipps-Universität Marburg; Prof. Wolfgang J. Parak, ACS Nano Associate Editor, Philipps-Universität Marburg, and CIC Biomagune; Prof. Alireza Moshaverinia, Dr. Yu Shrike Zhang, ACS Nano Junior Fellow, MIT; Dr. Cesar de la Fuente Núñez, ACS Nano Junior Fellow, MIT; Dr. Wei Gao, ACS Nano Junior Fellow, University of California, Berkeley; Prof. Jeff Miller, Co-organizer, UCLA; Dr. Steven Jonas, UCLA; Prof. Aydogan Ozcan, Co-organizer, ACS Nano Editorial Advisory Board, and UCLA; Prof. Julie Biteen, University of Michigan; Mr. Thomas Young, UCLA; and Prof. Nam-Joon Cho, Nanyang Technological University. Front row: Dr. Stefano Bertuzzi, American Society for Microbiology; Prof. Jian Xu, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences; Prof. Paul S. Weiss, Co-organizer, ACS Nano Editor-in-Chief, and UCLA; Dr. Amalio Telenti, Human Longevity, Inc.; Prof. Jo Handelsman, keynote speaker, University of Wisconsin; Prof. Huiying Li, UCLA; Dr. Ester Kwon, ACS Nano Junior Fellow, MIT; Prof. Andrea Kasko, UCLA; Prof. Federico Rosei, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique and Canada Fulbright Chair; and Dr. Josh Jackman, ACS Nano Junior Fellow, Nanyang Technological University and Stanford University. Not shown: ACS Nano Junior Fellow Juliana Chan, Nanyang Technological University; ACS Nano Editors: Profs. Warren Chan, Ali Khademhosseini, and Helmuth Möhwald; UCLA Profs. Sahar Ansari, Jonathan Jacobs, and Gerard Wong; Dr. Emma Taylor, Naked Biome; ACS Nano Staff: Ms. Holly Bunje, Dr. Laura Fernandez, and Ms. Ellie Key. Photo credit: Marc Roseboro
Our editors, advisors, and staff are in constant communication, collaborating to understand where our field is going and where we can have impact beyond nanoscience and nanotechnology. More recently, we have formally taken on the role of laying out existing and potential technologies for new areas of exploration, including bringing together leaders in critical related fields. We proposed technologies needed and opportunities for the BRAIN Initiative and the National Microbiome Initiative in the United States and beyond.2,3 The Nano Focus articles that resulted have had significant impact around the world, in initiating new and expanding existing efforts at universities, governments, and corporate laboratories. In discussions with you, our readers, and with our advisors, we are increasing this activity, to bring together leaders and rising stars from around the world to explore new areas of opportunity. We partnered with the Kavli Foundation and the Clinical Translational Science Institute at UCLA in the first such ACS Nano Kavli Futures Symposium last month, in which we focused on the intersection of precision medicine and the microbiome.4 In addition to leading scientists from Canada, China, Germany, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United States, we had six junior ACS Nano fellows, both participating and being mentored to accelerate their careers (Figure 1). Based on our discussions and in an expanded group, we are now writing an article that we hope will also stimulate activity in areas that we found would be most impactful in accelerating work at this critical nexus. Keep an eye out for this piece and for upcoming Futures symposia. © 2017 American Chemical Society
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ANNOUNCEMENT The 2017 ACS Nano award lectures will be given at the ChinaNano 2017 in Beijing, China, August 29−31, 2017.5 As always, one winner will be selected from each of the Americas, Published: April 25, 2017 3423
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b02616 ACS Nano 2017, 11, 3423−3424
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R.; Miller, J. F.; Ozcan, A.; Prather, K. A.; Quake, S. R.; Ruby, E. G.; Silver, P. A.; Taha, S.; van den Engh, G.; Weiss, P. S.; Wong, G. C. L.; et al. Tools for the Microbiome: Nano and Beyond. ACS Nano 2016, 10, 6−37. (4) Li, Y. The Quarter-Century Anniversary of Carbon Nanotube Research. ACS Nano 2017, 11, 1−2. (5) The 7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, China 2017. http://www.chinanano.org/. (6) ACS Fall Lectureship Series. http://bit.ly/ACSNano17Award.
Asia/Pacific, and Europe/Middle East/Africa regions. Our editors, current selection committee, and previous winners are not eligible for this award. Nominations are open now through June 9, 2017.6
Warren C. W. Chan, Associate Editor
Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Editor Helmuth Möhwald, Associate Editor Wolfgang J. Parak, Associate Editor
Jeff F. Miller
Aydogan Ozcan, Editorial Advisory Board, UCLA
Paul S. Weiss,* Editor-in-Chief
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Ali Khademhosseini: 0000-0002-2692-1524 Wolfgang J. Parak: 0000-0003-1672-6650 Aydogan Ozcan: 0000-0002-0717-683X Paul S. Weiss: 0000-0001-5527-6248 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors and attendees thank Bea Becerra, Holly Bunje, Dr. Laura Fernandez, Ellie Key, Lucas Lee, Marc Roseboro, and especially Nikki Lin for help and support in organizing and running the ACS Nano Kavli Futures Symposium, which was supported by the Kavli Foundation, ACS Publications, the Clinical Translational Science Institute at UCLA, and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.
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