Advanced Delivery and Therapeutic Applications of RNAi (eBook)

Professor Kun Cheng, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Professor Cheng's research interests include the delivery and therapeutic applications of RNAi for breast cancer, prostate cancer, liver diseases, and type I diabetes. He has been working in the area of nucleic acids since 2002. He is co-editor of Advanced Drug Delivery with Dr. Ashim Mitra and Dr. Chi Lee (Wiley, 2012). He has also co-edited a themed issue entitled "siRNA Delivery" with Dr. Ram Mahato for the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics, and has developed and taught a graduate course entitled "Protein and Nucleic Acid Drug Delivery". Professor Ram I. Mahato, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA Professor Mahato is a full professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug/Gene Delivery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis. He is the author or co-author of 85 peer reviewed articles and book chapters. He has also edited/written five books and six special journal issues. He is a Special Features Editor of Pharmaceutical Research and on the editorial board of several journals. His research interest includes delivery and targeting of small molecules, oligonucleotides, siRNA and genes.