Nanovaccinology (eBook)

This book provides an overview of the cumulative work on a driving force for innovation in medicine and modern healthcare, boosting advances in therapeutics, biosensors, vaccines, and clinical systems. The work presented shows how nanoparticles have been investigated as vaccine adjuvants because they possess chemical and structural properties that improve immunogenicity as well as the use of nanotechnology in the construction of immunization systems that has developed into the field of viral nanovaccinology. The volume highlights potential areas of research, innovation, and development of finished products for future commercialization and significant research exploration through nanoparticles that prove capable of surmounting most of the barriers like toxicity issues, clearance from biological system, DNA instability, and differences in expression systems. The contributing authors review the primary literature on principles, limitations, and recent breakthroughs in nanoparticle-based antigen delivery vehicles, their use in different diseases, the major bottlenecks, and related issues. Highlighting advances in nanoparticle engineering and the understanding of nanoparticle characteristics as well as critical legacy work dome in the field of nanobiotechnology, the book is ideal for a range of researchers and students in the pure and applied sciences devoted to nanomaterials, vaccinology, and translational medicine.

Professor Dr. Kaushik Pal is Professor and Group Leader within the Department of Physics, University Centre for Research and Development (UCRD), Chandigarh University, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kalyani, India. He achieved most prestigious Honaris Cousá Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) award from IKTBN, Sepang, Govt. of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; received a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Greece offered by European Union and Chinese Academy of Science; and was elected Fellow at Wuhan University, China. In his professional career has built research centers of excellence and smart teaching platform contributions at the University Federal Rio de Jàneiro, Brazil; Yarmouk University, Jordan; and the University of Maribör, Slovenia. And most significantly, he published 28 books and 158-articles in top-tier international journal (SCI/SCOPUS). As an efficient group leader, he also supervised PhD's and post-doctorates in his group with several collaborators from foreign universities. His current research interests include nanofabrication, chemical nanoengineering, solid-state condensation chemistry, renewable green energy revolution, functional Materials hybridization, CNTs/graphene, liquid crystalline optical materials, polymeric nanocomposite, switchable device modulation, spectroscopy and electron microscopy, bio-inspired materials for nano-biotechnology, drug delivery, tissue engineering, nano-imaging and cell culturing and integration, flexible and transparent electrodes, supercapacitors, optoelectronics, green nanotechnology, and novel biosensor applications.