Novel Platforms for Drug Delivery Applications

Dr. Sangita Das is working as Newton International Fellow at Durham University, England, United Kingdom. She also works as a visiting professor in the Department of Energy Science in Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. She received her B. Sc. degree with honors in chemistry in 2008 from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She obtained her M. Sc. degree in chemistry with organic specialization in 2010 from the same university. She had qualified the all India (CSIR–JRF) NET, and then she joined “The Goswami Group,” Department of Chemistry, IIEST for her doctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Shyamaprosad Goswami. She got Ph.D. in 2016. Her areas of research interest include molecular recognition; design of fluorescence chemosensors; and characterization of fluorescence probe (detection of metal ions, anions, reactive oxygen species, nerve gas, and other environmentally hazardous species, etc.); aggregation-induced emission dyes and solid-state emitters, and synthesis of compounds with antidiabetic activity. She is now working as a Newton International Fellow in the United Kingdom. Her current research activities include the development of compounds as HDAC inhibitors, experimental and theoretical investigations of electronic structure of transition metal complexes with redox noninnocent ligands, and computational chemistry (DFT, TDDFT calculations). Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields. Dr. Partha Pratim Das is presently working as a postdoctoral researcher in Seoul National University, South Korea. He previously worked in the Institute of High-Pressure Mineral Physics and Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, as a postdoctoral researcher. He has completed both the B.Sc. (2008) and M.Sc. (2010) in chemistry from Calcutta University, India. He has received Ph.D. in science (chemistry) in 2016 from Jadavpur University, India. His working laboratories during Ph.D. are CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, and CSIR-NCL, Pune, India. His research area is focused on nanotechnology, synthesis, and structure–properties correlation studies of different multifunctional nanomaterials under various conditions for mainly clean and sustainable energy and environmental applications. He has published several high-impact papers in peer-reviewed journals. Moreover, his research works have been acclaimed in many national and international conferences and journal societies.

1. Introduction: state of the art, new challenges, and opportunities for drug delivery and its application 2. Drug delivery application: an outlook on past and present technologies 3. General mechanisms of drug loading and sustained release 4. Supramolecular hydrogels as drug delivery systems for nerve regeneration and wound healing 5. Molecularly imprinted polymeric carriers for controlled drug release 6. Engineered extracellular vesicles as drug delivery systems for the next generation of nanomedicine 7. Polyelectrolyte multilayer films for cancer therapy 8. Porous metal9. Stimulus-responsive liposomes as smart nanocarriers for drug delivery applications 10. Hybrid platforms for drug delivery applications 11. Self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery systems with bioavailability potential 12. Graphene-based nanomaterials for targeted drug delivery and tissue engineering 13. Bionanocomposites as a new platform for drug delivery systems 14. Nanotube platforms for effective drug delivery applications 15. Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticle drug for oral delivery applications 16. Delivery of radiopharmaceuticals and theranostic agents: targeted alpha therapy 17. Controlled drug release and drug delivery applications from mesoporous nanoparticles 18. Porous nanostructured metal oxides as potential scaffolds for drug delivery 19. Thin films as an emerging platform for drug delivery 20. Modeling and simulation in drug delivery 21. In-vivo drug release studies 22. Toxicity measurement and toxicity studies of drug delivery 23. Nasal and pulmonary routes of drug delivery 24. “Gene therapy”: ethical and regulatory issues 25. New challenges in drug discovery