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The field of Bioinorganic Supramolecular Chemistry is an emerging research area including metal‐based supramolecules resulting from coordination‐driven self‐assembly (CDSA), whereby metal ions and organic ligands can be easily linked by metal–ligand bonds via Lewis' acid/base interactions. The focus of this ‘In a Nutshell’ review will be on the family of supramolecular coordination complexes, discrete entities formed by CDSA, which have recently captured widespread attention as a new class of versatile multifunctional materials with broad biological applications including molecular recognition, biosensing, therapy, imaging and drug delivery. Herein, we provide a summary of the state‐of‐the‐art use of these systems in biomedicine, with some selected representative examples, as well as our visions of the challenges and possible directions in the field.