00:00 Molecules
and atoms in an eye mixing through to a close-up of an eye
Low
angle of delegates walking into Auditorium
Wide
shot of auditorium
Close
up of Ottilia Saxl
Guide Voice: NanoTechnology deals in the
minute, at the levels of atoms and molecules. But its impact on our
lives will be anything but small.
At least that was the feelings of around 1,500 of the
world’s leading researchers, healthcare specialists and
policy makers who attended EuroNanoForum 2005 in Edinburgh.
00:21 SOT: Ottilia Saxl; CEO Institute of
Nanotechnology – “My vision is that
NanoTechnology in terms of the future will be like something out of
Star Trek. It will be non-evasive. People will have sensors on you.
You can sit in your own home. Your health details will be
translated by the sensor. It will go to a central computer, it will
tell you what’s wrong with you. I don’t see why we need
the doctors in the middle we’ll need surgeons. Health care
and monitoring should be as painless as possible and NanoTechnology
is leading to that."
00:49 Shots
of NanoTechnology being used
Close-up
of Dr Octavio Quintana Trias
Close-up
of delegates in audience
Wide
shot Dr Octavio Quintana Trias
Guide Voice Heralding a revolution in health
care, NanoTechnology research provides molecular-sized solutions to
some of the most pressing medical problems.
And the European Commission has put its weight firmly behind the
field, launching a new European Technology Platform on NanoMedicine
at the conference. The commission proposes to double its funding
from around 5 Billion Euros a year to 10 Billion.
01:15 SOT: Dr Octavio Quintana Trias; Director of
Health, Research Directorate – General, European Commission
– “It is true that in Europe we are
leading in public investment on NanoTechnology and one of the
biggest fields for application of it is certainly health. We have
just seen that there are many, many applications that will change
how health care is delivered how health care is provided and
centred around the patient.”
01:45 Wide
shots of Exhibition stands at EuroNanoFroum 2005
Close-up
of arteries
Wide
shot of speaker
Wide
shot of auditorium
Close-up
of delegates in audience
Close-up
of auditorium screen with a hospital of the future on it
Guide Voice: NanoTechnology provides some of
the most exciting areas of research. NanoDiagnosis is now sensitive
enough to look at the working of the body and disease at the level
of a single cell.
It can also improve existing therapies and invent novel ones for
diseases which cannot be treated at present such as certain types
of cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes.
The Commission’s aim is to drastically improve the EU
citizen’s health by 2020 through NanoMedicine.
02:17 SOT: Dr Patrick Boisseau; Nano2Life, CEA-Leti
– “The way we treat people will be
significantly different. But we need to make a huge investment in
research and understanding how these micronanotechnology could
bring real improvements this is what we are focusing our efforts
on.”
02:34 SOT: Jouko Karvinen; President & CEO, Philips
Medical Systems – “The promise of success
for nanomedicine, molecular medicine is that we can actually
diagnose before symptoms. Nowadays as you well know you go to see
the doctor when you have symptoms this is in vitro, outside the
body, testing. You can be diagnosed before you even know you have a
problem and the earlier you’re diagnosed and have treatment
the better your life is going to be.”
03:05 Wide
shot of auditorium
Close-up
of delegates in audience
Mid-shot
of Andreas Jordan
Guide Voice: NanoMedicine is already touching
people’s lives however with Magforce NanoTechnologies in
Germany enjoying success in defeating cancer through
NanoTechnology.
03:16 SOT: Andreas Jordan; Managing Director MagForce
Nanotechnologies – “We think that with
this technology we can give the patients a second chance to
survive. Our clinical studies, I think we have good signs that we
have some long term survivors which had a very short life
expectancy.”
03:32 Shots
of NanoTechnology being used.
Shots
of researchers in lab.
Guide Voice: If it wasn’t for companies
like MagForce the wonders of NanoTechnology would just be a pipe
dream. The future health of the world’s population is in
their hands.
03:43 SOT: Dr Alessandra Pavesio; Director of Research
& Development, Fidia Advanced Biopolymers –
“So really the responsibility for this translation of
research from academia to industry is of the SME which is also
where Europe has a leading role. If we’re good at something
we’re good at SMEs we’re good at small entrepreneurial
structures and developing and taking research through to
industry.”
04:06 Wide
shot of press conference.
Close-up
of Andreas Jordan
Close-up
of Dr Alessandra Pavesio
Close-up
of Dr Patrick Boisseau
Wide
shot of schoolchildren watching presentation
Close-ups
of kids
Wide
shot of schoolchildren watching presentation
Guide Voice: EuroNanoForum 2005 was attended by
some of the brightest brains in the world. But arguably the most
important people at the conference were a group of Edinburgh
schoolchildren, there for an introduction to NanoTechnology. They
are the next generation of researchers, policy makers and health
care specialists who will decide how NanoTechnology is used in the
future.
04:33 End
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