Micro and nanotech medicine

We're working on finalizing this report. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has looked at the nanotech "industry" over the past couple years (we did a report three years ago) that it is the most hyped, promise-filled industry that has kept forestalling investors and any other interested parties from seeing concrete successes. Producing a report on this subject that achieves even the least resemblance to realistic timelines or realizable potential demands a diligent, critical eye to filter out the unlikely-to-ever-be-fulfilled potential.

Having said that, even the most conservative analyst would have to look at this industry and recognize that, REVENUES ASIDE, the industry is exploding with activity. The number of companies pursuing applications in nanotech and MEMS is huge. When you then distill the content down to focus only on those in the medical arena, the numbers are still huge.

There is revenue, too, and it is growing steadily toward that hockey stick upward shot that will take place, well, I'm not saying yet... We're still applying our analysis and tracking multiple technologies approaching the launch pad.

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Micro- and Nano-Medicine: Technologies, Applications, Industry, and Markets Worldwide

April 2006

Report #T625

· 250 pages · 45 Exhibits · 72 Company Profiles · Pub. Date April 2006 · Report #T625

The Report will be a detailed assessment of the products and technologies under development in the nanometer scale and micrometer scale levels with clinical applications, and an assessment of the market potential for products/technologies to be successfully commercialized for use in clinical practice within a ten year forecast period. This assessment will identify the technological, market, regulatory or other hurdles to be crossed en route to commercialization. The report will provide particular emphasis in detailing the current activities and status of product development at active companies. The analysis will be directed toward revealing specific opportunities for current or hopeful competitors.