Nanomaterials and Biomedicine

Chapter 1_Introduction to NanoScience, NanoTechnology, and NanoParticles.- Chapter 2_NanoScience and Bioprospecting.- Chapter 3_Nanomaterials and their use in Biomedicine.- Chapter 4_Nano scaffolds and Tissue Engineering.- Module 5_NanoScience Research in Regenerative Medicine.- Chapter 6_Nanomaterials in Food: Probiotics.- Chapter 7_Eco-compatible Single format Nanobioantibody.- Chapter 8_ NanoScience and DNA barcoding.

Professor Dr. Ena Ray Banerjee is a Senior Professor of Zoology, Principal Investigator and Leader of the Translational Outcomes Research Group, and Head of the Immunobiology and Regenerative Medicine Research Laboratory at the Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She previously served as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Medicine, University Of Washington School Of Medicine, USA (2003-2007), and as a Senior Investigator at Advinus Therapeutics Pvt Ltd, Pune and Bangalore, India (2007-2009). She is the founding Director of BioConsort Consultancy and Research LLP, and is also the co-founder of Consortium for Life, a multi-disciplinary network of academic and non-academic professionals working on various applications in the health sciences, environment, education and healthcare. Her main research interests are immunobiology and regenerative medicine in the context of zoology, biomedicine, the life sciences and biotechnology, with a focuson drug discovery and translational research on developing technologies for bio-prospecting and healthcare, nutraceuticals, tissue engineering and nanotechnology. She has received various prestigious awards, notably the R.K. Sur Memorial medal, The Zoological Society of India award, and the Anupama Ullas Somman award for valuable contributions to Women's Empowerment (from Calcutta University BCW cell and Turnstone Global). She has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience in academia and industry in India and the USA.

She has also published over 50 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and authored or co-authored numerous books and book chapters. She is a member of several international scientific societies and organizations and serves as a committee member and in an advisory capacity to various government, non-government, non-profit and corporate projects.