Figure 6.

Publication focus of different Alliance investigators. The upper part of the graph represents investigators originating from non-medical fields: physics, chemistry, engineering. As graph shows, prior to their involvement with the Alliance program (2001-2005, 1st, upper row of the graph), they published predominantly in non-medical nanotechnology (indicated as “Nanotech” in red). Once they started to participate via Alliance program funded grants, their focus evolved, and their overall publication portfolio gradually shifted towards medical applications of nanotechnology (visualized by growing blue portion of the pie chart corresponding to “Biomedical” in 2nd upper row). Similarly (lower part of the graph), investigators, who traditionally researched cancer and medicine, began to involve more nanotechnologies in their work as demonstrated by the red portion (“Nanotech”) of the pie chart growing after their participation in the Alliance program.