Polymeric Nanoparticles as a Promising Tool for Anti-cancer Therapeutics

Polymeric Nanoparticles as Promising Tool for Anti-cancer Therapeutics provides an understanding of polymeric compounds and their use in cancer therapies. The book begins by giving an overview of the current status, future challenges and potential utilization of polymeric nanoparticles. It then covers specific polymeric nanoparticles through contributions from world-renowned experts and researchers. Chapters examine specific polymeric nanoparticles, their development as potential targeted delivery systems, and cancer characteristics that can be targeted for therapy development. The book synthesizes current research trends in the field, thus enhancing existing knowledge of nanomedicine, drug delivery and therapeutic intervention strategies in human cancers. Users will find this to be an ideal reference for research scientists and those in the pharmaceutical and medical fields who are working to develop novel cancer therapies using nanoparticle-based delivery systems.

Dr. Prashant Kesharwani is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. He has more than 250 international publications in well reputed journals and 13 international books (Elsevier). He is a recipient of several internationally acclaimed awards viz ‘Ramanujan Fellowship, DST, India-2017’, ‘Excellence Research Award 2014’, ‘Young Innovator Award (Gold medal) 2012’, ‘International Travel Award/Grant from DST (New Delhi) and INSA (CCSTDS, Chennai) 2012’. He has received an ICMR Senior Research Fellowship (PhD) and AICTE Junior Research Fellowship (M. Pharm.). He has presented many invited talks and oral presentations at prestigious scientific peer-conferences, received international acclaims and awards for research contribution, supervised students/junior researchers and actively participated in outreach and scientific dissemination for the service of wider community. Dr. Kishore M. Paknikar is Professor Agharkar Chair and former Director of Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India. He is a MSc in Microbiology (1980) and a PhD in Microbiology (1984) from the University of Poona, India. His work in the field of delivery systems focuses on the delivery of drugs, proteins, peptides, siRNA, and nutrients. He is also exploring systems like polymeric nanoparticles and dendrimers for delivery of bioactive molecules in the treatment of cancers, Alzheimer’s disease, candidiasis, etc. He has more than 120 publications in highly reputed journals and 33 patents to his credit. He was a visiting Professor at Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg, France) and Wayne State University (School of Medicine, Detroit, USA). He also worked as a Research Advisor at National Nanotechnology Centre (Ministry of Science and Technology), Bangkok, Thailand. He has several fellowships and awards to his credit. Dr. Virendra Gajbhiye has been working in the field of nanomedicine for the last 15 years. He has a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Pharmaceutical Science with post-doctoral research experience at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oregon Health and Sciences University. Since 2013 he is working as a Scientist in Nanomedicine at Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India. He has worked extensively with polymeric nanoparticles specially dendrimers and mesoporous silica nanoparticles. His research interest lies in Nanomedicine, Targeted drug and siRNA delivery, Biomedical application of dendrimers, Biomaterials unimolecular micelles and imaging, Multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles, Nanoparticles in tissue engineering.