Challa Kumar is currently the Group Leader of Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Baton Rouge, USA. His research interests are in developing novel synthetic methods for functional nanomaterials and innovative therapeutic, diagnostic and sensory tools based on nanotechnology. He has eight years of industrial R&D experience working for Imperial Chemical Industries and United Breweries prior to joining CAMD. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, an international peer reviewed journal published by American Scientific Publishers, and the series editor for the ten-volume book series Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) published by Wiley-VCH. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, as a post doctoral fellow and at the Max Planck Institute for Carbon Research in Mülheim, Germany, as an invited scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in synthetic organic chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, India.

From the Contents: Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering: The Scaffold Based Approach. Polymeric Nanofiber for Tissue Engineering. Electrospinning Technology for Nanofibrous Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering. Nano-fibrous Scaffolds and their Biological Effects. Nanophase Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Orthopedic Tissue Engineering Using Nanomaterials. Hydroxyapetite Nanocrystals as Bone Tissue Substitute. Magnetic Nanoparticles for Tissue Engineering. Applications and Implications of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes in Tissue Engineering. Nanoparticles for Cell Engineering - A Radical Concept. Nanoparticles and Nanowires for Cellular Engineering Nanoengineering of Biomaterial Surfaces