Hybrid Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery

Dr. Prashant Kesharwani is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, India. He has over 12 years of teaching and research experience, specializing in translational nanomedicine, polymeric biomaterials, targeted drug delivery, and nanoengineered drug delivery systems. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications in reputed international journals and edited over 30 international books. His research has received widespread recognition, with an h-index exceeding 100. He has secured several competitive research grants from national funding agencies and received prestigious honors, including the USERN Laureate Award and the SERB–Ramanujan Fellowship. His research interests include nanomedicine, targeted and stimuli-responsive drug delivery, polymeric nanocarriers, and translational pharmaceutical research. He actively contributes to academic mentoring, scientific research, and scholarly publishing.Prof. N.K. Jain is an internationally renowned academician and researcher and a senior professor in India who superannuated in June 2014 after rendering more than 40 years of dedicated and distinguished service as a teacher and 25 years as full professor. Prof. Jain is the author of two dozen celebrated books in pharmaceutical sciences in India and has contributed several chapters in national and international books. He has to his credit over 480 publications in reputed pharmaceutical Journals and has supervised 55 PhD and 141 M. Pharm. candidates. He has been a reviewer for several international and national research journals. Professor Jain’s current research interests include various aspects of controlled, novel and targeted drug delivery; nanotechnology and nanomedicine and he is globally known for his excellent research in the field of hydrotropic solubilization, resealed erythrocytes-based drug delivery and dendrimer drug delivery. Currently he is exploring the pharmaceutical potential of Carbon Nanotubes and Quantum Dots. Recently he has also contributed two chapters on international books.

• 1. Nanostructures and their associated challenges for drug delivery2. Characterization techniques of hybrid drug delivery systems3. Hybrid drug nanocrystals for drug delivery4. Hybrid nanogel systems for drug delivery5. Polymer-lipid hybrid nanostructures for drug delivery6. Hybrid chitosan-based drug delivery systems for drug delivery7. Hybrid polymer–metal composites for drug delivery8. Hybrid protein-inorganic nanoparticles for drug delivery9. Silica based hybrid systems for drug delivery10. Dendrimer nanohybrid systems for drug delivery11. Bioactive hybrid nanowires for drug delivery12. Hybrid carbon-based materials for drug delivery13. Quantum dots hybrid systems for drug delivery14. Strengths, limitations and regulatory aspects of hybrid drug delivery systems15. Recent advances and future prospective of hybrid drug delivery systems