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Metals are essential to life and health, and given the success of Cisplatin as well as MRI contrast and radiopharmaceutical agents, a rapidly growing interest in developing inorganic medicinal alternatives has spawned the Metals in Medicine GRC. Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry is an emerging field combating diseases using an unconventional perspective, encompassing diagnostics and therapeutics, in healthcare. The low-molecular weights of carbon-based pharmaceutical frameworks, their historical connection to natural products, and their fundamental stability to hydrolysis, have allowed this industry to grow and mature to produce a refined drug pipeline. However, the need to conquer diseases continues, target complexity is increasing, and as bacterial resistance develops to many carbon-based drugs exploitation of less conventional strategies is needed. Cross disciplinary approaches allow several health related disciplines, including nutrition, to come together to develop novel treatment strategies. Several approaches to combat cancer will be presented, as well as studies and treatment approaches to other diseases, including diabetes, cardiac and pulmonary conditions, neurological disorders, stroke, renal diseases, aging, genetic defects and other illnesses. The Metals in Medicine Conference has grown into the meeting place of chemists, biochemists, biologists, pharmacologists, geneticists, toxicologists, nutritionists and clinical scientists with interest in the application of metals and other inorganic elements in health-related fields.