Elsevier Multifunctional Nanocarriers (Micro and Nano Technologies)

Multifunctional Nanocarriers provides information on the concept, theory and application of multifunctional nanocarriers. The book covers current research, beginning with product strategy, targeted drug delivery, and advanced drug delivery approaches, along with numerous multifunctional nanocarriers and their regulatory considerations for product development. The book covers targeting, receptor mediated targeting, and recent advancements using multifunctional nanocarriers and their regulatory aspects. This is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who want to learn more about how multifunctional nanocarriers are applied in a range of biomedical applications. From the Back Cover <i>Multifunctional Nanocarriers</i> provides information on the concept, theory, and application of multifunctional nanocarriers. The book covers the current research, beginning with product strategy, targeted drug delivery, and advanced drug delivery approaches, with numerous multifunctional nanocarriers and their regulatory considerations, for product development.<br><br>The book aims to cover targeting, receptor mediated targeting, and recent advancement, using these multifunctional nanocarriers with their regulatory aspects. The book addresses (i) fundamental: concepts, theory, and advancement, (ii) biomedical, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and drug delivery application, (iii) latest research, recent innovations, and developments, (iv) regulatory considerations, and (v) current advancements, with approved marketed pharmaceutical products for human healthcare.<br><br>This is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who want to learn more about how multifunctional nanocarriers are applied in a range of biomedical applications. About the Author Neelesh Kumar Mehra is Senior Research Scientist at the Sentiss Research Center, Haryana, India. His area of research is in the design, development, evaluation of ophthalmic nanoemulsion, lipospheres, liposomes, fullerenes, and nanoparticles for topical/parenteral delivery of drugs/biomolecules. Saurabh Srivastava is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad, India. His research interests include the development and optimization of industrially viable, feasible and scalable differentiated formulations, for the purpose of bioavailability enhancement, food effect minimization, repurposing/new indication, synergism for FDCs, and dose/dosing frequency reduction. Major areas of research include Self-assembled Supramolecular systems viz. liposomes, niosomes, cyclodextrin, nano- & micro-particles and solid-lipid nanoparticles. The focus is centered onto the exploitation of US FDA approved biomaterials in combination with other potential lipids and polymers to develop the innovative dosage forms and drug delivery systems in order to improve the bioavailability, stability, safety (tolerance) and patient-compliance. Whilst a wide range of applications are being taken up, the special emphasis is given to augment the aqueous solubility and bioavailability of anticancer drugs using polymer-drug conjugates. Moreover, we emphasized on design, synthesis and development of ligand conjugated stealth nanoconstructs for delivery and targeting of anticancer drugs in cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo. Pankaj Kumar Singh, PhD, is senior research fellow at Punjabi University, India. He received his PhD degree on bioinformatics at the same institution. His research interests are computer-based modelling of molecules, with focus on developing models to study how synthetic molecules interact with cancer cells.