Nanomaterials for Photodynamic Therapy

Dr. Prashant Kesharwani is an assistant professor of pharmaceutics at School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. He has more than 12 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience at international levels from various countries, including the United States, Malaysia, and India. An overarching goal of his current research is the development of nanoengineered drug delivery systems for various diseases. He has more than 300 international publications in well-reputed journals and more than 25 international books (Elsevier). He is a recipient of many research grants from various funding bodies. He is also the recipient of several internationally acclaimed awards, such as “USERN Laureate award”, most prestigious “Ramanujan Fellowship Award”. He actively participates in outreach and scientific dissemination for the service of the wider community.

1. A Narrative History of Photodynamic Therapy 2. Mechanisms of photodynamic therapy 3. Mechanisms of photodynamic therapy in cancer treatment 4. Sensitizers in photodynamic therapy 5. Polymeric micelles mediated photodynamic therapy 6. Liposomes in photodynamic therapy 7. Organic nanoparticles in photodynamic therapy 8. Lipid nanoparticles in photodynamic therapy 9. Solid lipid nanoparticles in photodynamic therapy 10. Actively targeted nanoparticles in photodynamic therapy 11. Dendrimers in photodynamic therapy 12. Carbon materials for photodynamic therapy 13. Fullerenes in photodynamic therapy 14. Quantum Dots in photodynamic therapy 15. Photodynamic therapy in cosmetics 16. Translational aspects of photodynamic therapy in drug resistant cancers 17. Towards photodynamic chemotherapy with C60-drug-nanocomplexes 18. Challenges, conclusion and future perspective of photodynamic therapy