Guest Editorial CINBI 2020 Special Issue

The 2nd edition of the International Congress on NanoBioEngineering (CINBI2020) is the anchor academic event of the Research Center on Biotechnology and Nanotechnology (CIByN). The CINBI2020 was organized by the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon through the School of Chemical Sciences and was held from October 26 to 30 at the virtual facilities of the CIByN in Monterrey, Mexico. Just as its 1st edition, the CINBI2020 allowed for the fostering of interactions among scientists, engineers, and medical researchers and served as a platform to discuss the advances and future applications of nanobioengineering research. Seventeen world-renowned keynote speakers from nanotechnology, biotechnology, engineering, and other interdisciplinary fields participated in the virtual 2nd International Congress on NanoBioEngineering 2020. Furthermore, the congress included an International Discussion Forum that focused on the advances and importance of nanobioengineering in the development of technology and the tools that it will provide us to solve the global problems that society currently faces. This forum was highly relevant as it included participants of international stature from the academic (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, the Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and the University of Edinburgh), industrial (a representative from the company Nanomateriales), and governmental sectors (the Nuevo León Nanotechnology Cluster and the Nuevo León Biotechnology Cluster). The CINBI2020 registered 622 participants (291 men and 331 women), representing 60 academic institutions from 29 countries. It was sponsored by renowned scientific journals (including the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience), the government (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Grant 311486, from Mexico), and the private sector.