To introduce the Southwest Virginia medical, materials, and business communities to the potential and current practice of materials medicine, the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute and the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech are sponsoring a program on "Enabling Nanomaterials for Advanced Drug Delivery," featuring university researchers and distinguished plenary lecturers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Nebraska Medical Center on Friday, Nov. 21, at the Skelton Alumni Center at the Inn at Virginia Tech.