The huge explosion of research and development in the field of biosensing over the last decade has led to new discoveries over a wide variety of areas. Biosensing has had a major impact in commercial, medical, research, and homeland security applications and is poised to take the next step in integration with other mature technologies leading to a potential revolution in personalized medicine. The robustness of multi-modal sensing schemes has led to a significant attention to integration of a plurality of different sensors into small, and preferably single-chip sensing micro-systems. The combination of nano-sensing and nanomedicine could eventually lead to a true Theranostics. A major purpose of this conference will be to bring together researchers and engineers who work on the different aspects of these intriguing areas, and thus to provide an interdisciplinary atmosphere to foster new innovations in nanomedicine, nanosensing, bioMEMS, biomimetics and biosensors, as well as theoretical and experimental tools that support and enable these innovations.