Advances in Nanoinformatics and Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications

Dr. Johra Khan, PhD is Assistant Professor and Principal Research Investigator at the College of Applied Medical Laboratory Sciences, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. She is a biotechnologist and academic researcher with interest in the chemistry of natural products, functional foods and nutraceuticals, analytical chemistry and studies related to both communicable and non-communicable diseases. She is a recipient of many awards and a member of many scientific bodies such as the Middle East Molecular Biology Society (MEMBS), the International Society of Global Health (ISoGH), Science Advisory Board (SAB), and the Royal Society of Biology (United Kingdom). Dr. Johra has written many articles, books and book chapters with different publishers including Elsevier. She has supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate students within the last 10 years. Dr. Johra has collaborated on key research projects with scientists from different institutions including those outside of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She is a reviewer and editorial board member of both local and international journals of repute. Mithun Rudrapal, PhD, FIC, FICS, CChem (India), is Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University), Guntur, India. Dr. Rudrapal has been actively engaged in teaching and research in the field of Pharmaceutical and Allied Sciences for more than 13 years. He has over a hundred publications in peer-reviewed international journals to his credit and has filed a number of Indian and International patents. In addition, Dr. Rudrapal is the author of dozen published or forthcoming books. Dr. Rudrapal works in the areas of Medicinal Chemistry, CADD, Drug Repurposing, Phytochemistry, Herbal Drugs and Dietary Polyphenols. Dr Jayanta Kumar Patra, MSc, PhD, PDF, is an Associate Professor at Dongguk University, Republic of Korea. He has around 14 years of research and teaching experience in the fields of pharmacology and nano-biotechnology. His current research focuses on nanoparticle synthesis by green technology methods and associated biomedical applications: green synthesis of silver, gold, iron, calcium, phosphorous nanoparticles using food waste, agricultural waste and plant materials and evaluation of their antibacterial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity potential. He also focuses on the antibacterial synergistic potential of nanoparticles and conjugation with different antibiotics, drugs etc. along with ethno-medicinal potential of plants. Dr Patra has published >150 articles in various national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Materials Science and Engineering C, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, International Journal of nanomedicine and Journal of Nanobiotechnology and around 35 book chapters. He is editor of 16 books covering nanotechnology in pharmacology, biomedicine and food sciences, including titles published with?Apple Academic Press, CRC Press and Springer. He is currently also an editorial board member of >10 international journals, including BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Frontiers in Nanotechnology, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, and Frontiers in Microbiology.

1. Role of Nanotechnology in Biomedicine 2. Bioinformatics, Nanoinformatics and Nanomedicine 3. Applications of Nanoinformatics in Biomedicine 4. Tools and Techniques of Nanoinformatics 5. Nanoinformatics in Nanodelivery Systems, Diagnostics and Therapeutics 6. Applications of Nanoinformatics in Nanotoxicology 7. Nanoinformatics in Cancer Therapy 8. Nanoinformatics in Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Therapy 9. Nanoinformatics in CVDs and Diabetes Therapy 10. Nanoinformatics in Brain Disorders Therapy 11. Challenges for Informatics in Nanomedicine