Ever wonder who the world's leaders are when it comes to nanomedicine research? Well now you can find the answer at the new nanomedicine lab registry from Nanomedicine and Nanobiology Research.

The registry ranks the top 382 laboratories based on medline abstracts, with labs ranked according to the citation rate of each individual article.

Here are the top five:
Chad Mirkin Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University

Pat Couvreur UMR CNRS 8612 Physico-chimie, Pharmacotechnie, Biopharmacie--Université de Paris-Sud

Royce Murray Kenan Laboratories of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Dave Reinhoudt Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente

Ralph Weissleder Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts general hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston

The registry, like Nanomedicine and Nanobiology Research, is run by Ion Channel Media Group. Ion founder and CEO J. Christian Hesketh, M.Sc., told me the registry is intended to help new graduate students and postdocs to find high impact laboratories. He thinks it may also interest the general public if they are interested in the most productive labs.

It looks like a great resource. I also find it interesting that labs names are listed after the names of their leaders, and three times smaller. Is the cult of personality that predominant in the world of nanomedicine labs?