Application of Gellan Gum as a Biomedical Polymer

Dr. Amit Kumar Nayak (MPharm, PhD) is working as a professor, at the Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha ‘O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India. He has earned his PhD from IFTM University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has over 14 years of research experiences in the field of pharmaceutics, especially in the development and characterization of novel biopolymeric and nanostructured drug delivery systems. Till date, he has authored more than 138 research and review publications in various high-impact peer-reviewed journals and 135 book chapters. He has edited/authored 23 international books to his credit. Dr. Nayak has presented his research work at several conferences. He has received University Foundation Day Research Award, 2019 and 2022 by Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. Dr. Nayak is a life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) and a registered pharmacist. Prof. (Dr.) Md Saquib Hasnain has over 13 years of research experience in the field of drug delivery and pharmaceutical formulation analyses, especially systematic development and characterization of diverse nanostructured drug delivery systems, controlled release drug delivery systems, bioenhanced drug delivery systems, nanomaterials and nanocomposites employing Quality by Design approaches and many more. Till date he has authored over 100 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals, more than 100 book chapters and 30 books to his credit. He is also serving as the reviewer of several prestigious journals. Overall, he has earned a highly impressive publishing and cited record. He has also participated and presented his research work at over ten conferences in India, and abroad. He was also a member of scientific societies i.e., Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain, International Association of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry, Switzerland and Swiss Chemical Society, Switzerland.

Introduction
1. Gellan gum: Source, production, and gelation mechanism
2. Impact of environmental conditions on the preparation and functionality of gellan gum
3. Sol-gel behaviour of gellan gum and its applications in biomedical industry
4. Biomedical properties of gellan gum

Biomedical materials
5. Gellan gum-based biomedical gels
6. Gellan gum-based hydrogels as useful biomedical material
7. Gellan gum-based biocomposites
8. Gellan gum-based nanocomposite hydrogel
9. Gellan gum-based nanosystems for biomedical applications
10. Cross-linked gellan gum for biomedical applications
11. Grafted-gellan gum for biomedical applications

Biomedical applications
12. Tissue engineering applications of gellan gum
13. Gellan gum-based wound dressings
14. Cell encapsulation and delivery using gellan gum
15. Protein and peptide delivery using gellan gum
16. Uses of gellan gum for nutrient delivery
17. Uses of gellan gum for growth factor delivery

Pharmaceutical excipients
18. Uses of gellan gum in pharmaceutical tablets
19. Gellan gum-based microparticles and beads for sustained drug delivery
20. Nanoformulations of gellan gum for improved drug delivery
21. Gellan gum-based in situ gels for drug delivery
22. Gellan gum-based nasal formulations
23. Gellan gum-based ocular formulations
24. Gellan gum-based dermatological formulations
25. Gellan gum-based gastroretentive systems
26. Ionically-gelled gellan gum-based systems for controlled therapeutic release
27. Gellan gum-based interpenetrating polymer networks for sustained release drug delivery
28. Gellan gum-based polyelectrolyte complexes for sustained release drug delivery

Other Topics
29. Future perspectives and challenges of plant polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients