Nanomedicine questionnaire

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1. In your opinion, what does differ nanotechnology and nanoscience from chemistry?

2. What is your personal definition of nanomedicine and what are the sectors of medicine which will get the greatest benefits from this science/technology in the future?

3. In your opinion, do nanotechnology, and nanomedicine in particular, raise ethical and privacy concerns? If so, why?

4. Do you think that a standardized nomenclature for nanotechnology be necessary or could just represent a useful tool for those involved in regulatory and legal issues?

5. Do you think that specific rules should be adopted for working environments where nanomaterials are created/deployed? Do you think that the biological sector deserves more attention in this regard?

6. Do you think that nanomedicine-related innovations in the realm of nanotechnology be the most complex to deal with due to the regulatory and societal issues that surround them? If so, why?

7. Do you think that nanomedicine research will be impaired or somehow harnessed by the results of environmental and health studies conducted on nanomaterials?

8. Do you think that nanotechnology innovations, in general, should deserve a different treatment as to their patenting and classification? And in the specific field of nanomedicine?

9. Purpose of the questionnaire: your answers could be used during the drafting of a Ph.D. dissertation which concerns the patenting and evaluation of nanomedicine innovations which will be published in 2011, the hyperlink to the document or the publication (if published as a book) will be provided to all contributors once the dissertation will be published.
How to fill in the questionnaire: please, feel free to reply to the questions that you consider more relevant to your experience and to send the form back even if you replied to just some of the them. They are relevant and valuable and can be helpful to my research. For your convenience, you can also reply to the questionnaire by recording your answers and then sending them as an audio file to my e-mail account.

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