Nanopharmaceuticals: Principles and Applications Vol. 2

Chapter 1 Environmental and Toxicological Implications of Nanopharmaceuticals - An Overview.- Chapter 2 Herbal Nanocarriers for Cancer Therapy.- Chapter 3 Nanopharmaceuticals: In Relevance to Drug Delivery and Targeting.- Chapter 4 Natural products and nanopharmaceuticals.- Chapter 5 Vesicular nanocarriers: A potential platform for dermal and transdermal drug delivery.- Chapter 6 Nanotechnology in Delivery and Targeting of Phytochemicals.- Chapter 7 Nanopharmaceuticals: healthcare applications and safety evaluations.- Chapter 8 Potential ecotoxicological risk of nanopharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment.- Chapter 9 Recent advances on nanostructured materials for drug delivery and release.

Dr. Vinod Kumar Yata is an interdisciplinary researcher working at National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India. He worked as an Assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. in Bio technology from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He specializes in interdisciplinary research which includes Nanotechnology, Microfluidics, Biotechnology, Cancer biology and Bioinformatics. He has developed a microfluidic device for the separation of live and motile spermatozoa from cattle semen samples. He opened up a new avenue to prodrug enzyme therapy by introducing the nanocarriers for the delivery of non-mammalian prodrug activating enzymes. He elucidated the structural features and binding interactions of several bio molecules by in silico methods. He published several research papers in peer reviewed international journals and presented papers in several international conferences.

Dr. Shivendu Ranjan is scientist at the Chaperon Biotech, SIDBI Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He is also serving as a senior research associate, adjunct, at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include nanotechnology, nanomedicine, science policy and diplomacy.He is associate editor of Environmental Chemistry Letters and editorial board member of Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment. He has received 20 awards and honors.Dr. Nandita Dasgupta has vast working experience in nanoscience and is working as Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India. She has worked on Mesenchymal stem cell derived exosomes for the treatment of uveitis. She has successfully engineered micro-vehicles for model drug molecules. Her areas of interest include nanomaterial fabrication and its applications inmedicine, food,