CRC Press Nanobiomaterials: Applications in Drug Delivery

This new volume focuses on the ever-growing and ever-sophisticated use of nanobiomaterials in drug delivery. There have been significant developments in the delivery of the active pharmaceutical ingredients to target sites, thereby sparing the normal functioning biological systems from damage, and this volume highlights some of the most important developments in the field. The book first provides an overview of nanobiomaterials and then goes on to report on new developments in drug delivery and nanotechnology, nanobiomaterials as carriers in cancer therapy, and the diverse uses of nanobiomaterials. Broken into sections, the chapters cover: an overview of nanobiomaterials drug delivery and nanotechnology nanobiomaterials as carriers in cancer therapeutics diverse uses of nanobiomaterials This volume will be a valuable resource on drug delivery for pharmaceutical manufacturers, healthcare personnel, and researchers. About the Author Anil K. Sharma is a lecturer at the Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, University of Delhi, India. He has published 25 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international reputed journals as well as ten book chapters. His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDs), drug delivery, nanotechnology, health science/life science, and biology/cancer biology/neurobiology. He has published 25 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international reputed journals as well as ten book chapters. His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDs), drug delivery, nanotechnology, health science/life science, and biology/cancer biology/neurobiology. Raj K. Keservani, MPharm, is a faculty of pharmaceutics at Sagar Institute of Research and Technology-Pharmacy, Bhopal, India. He has more than seven years of academic (teaching) experience from various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has published 30 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, fifteen book chapters, two co-authored books, and two edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Mr. Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital (UA), India. He received his Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) (specialization in pharmaceutics) from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India. His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery/ drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology. Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, has more than seven years of research and two years of teaching experience at various institutes in India in bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has authored over 29 peer-reviewed articles and 15 book chapters and, has co-edited one book. He has been a member of many scientific communities and is a reviewer for many international journals. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, and next-generation sequence analysis. Dr. Kesharwani is a recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Puraskar Award from the National Academy of Sciences, India, for best paper presentation.