Natural Biopolymers in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering

Rangasamy Jayakumar is a Professor at the Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed University), Kerala, India. He received his PhD degree in polymer chemistry from Anna University, Chennai, India (2002) and MSc degree from Bharathidasan University. Clinical Research Project Manager, MicroPort Orthopedics Inc.,Arlington, Tennessee, USA Dr. Vishnu Priya Murali has extensive research experience in the field of biomedical engineering, exploring a number of polymers, ceramics and metals for regenerative medicine. Her work has driven improvements in the fabrication and characterization of polymer-based hydrogels, nanogels and nanoparticles for bone tissue engineering, development, and characterization of polymeric scaffolds for drug delivery, and the fabrication of nanoparticle-loaded polymeric surface coatings for gene delivery. She is currently involved in translational research where she develops strategies and monitors research progress of ceramic and metallic orthopedic products that are ready to be commercialized. She has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Memphis, USA (2019), where she received the 2019 Steven Slack Fellowship and Herff College of Engineering Felllowship (2015-2019). She did her PostDoctoral training at Florida State University, USA (2019-2021) and was selected for the AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science, 2019. She has published 10 peer-reviewed journal articles in prestigious journals like Acta Biomaterialia and Carbohydrate Polymers and 3 book chapters for Wiley, Springer and Woodhead Publishing. She has around 650 citations and a i10 Index and h-index of 9, each. She has been invited as a guest speaker in multiple international forums and is a reviewer for several international journals of Elsevier, MDPI and Springer.

Section 1: Drug Delivery Applications of Natural Biopolymers Pages 1. Natural Biopolymers in Drug Delivery- Role, Challenges and Clinical Applications 2. Alginates in drug delivery systems 3. Carrageenan based drug delivery 4. Cellulose and cellulose derivatives in drug delivery 5. Chitin in drug delivery 6. Chitosan as potential carrier for drug delivery 7. Drug delivery applications of collagen 8. Cyclodextrin in drug delivery 9. Dextran based engineering: a leap in novel drug delivery 10. Progress of guar gum-based biomaterials as drug delivery carriers 11. Hyaluronic acid-based drug delivery systems for targeted cancer therapy 12. Pectin-based drug delivery system for biomedical applications 13. Role of starch-based drug delivery system and its pharma applications 14. Natural biopolymers in ophthalmology

Section 2: Tissue Engineering Applications of Natural Biopolymers Pages 15. Natural Biopolymers in Tissue Engineering- Role, Challenges and Clinical Applications 16. Alginate-based biopolymers for tissue engineering applications 17. Carrageenan in tissue engineering and biomedical applications 18. Cellulose in Tissue Engineering 19. Chitin biopolymer in tissue engineering 20. Tissue engineering and chitosan: a wonder biomaterial 21. Collagen-based biomaterials for tissue engineering applications 22. Advances in guar gum-based materials in tissue engineering applications 23. Hyaluronic acid in tissue engineering 24. Pectin in tissue engineering 25. Silk and silk fibroin in tissue engineering