Multifaceted Carboxymethyl Chitosan Derivatives: Properties and Biomedical Applications

Dr. R. Jayakumar - ​Professor at Amrita School of Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Kochi-682041, India-specializing in the area of Polymeric Biomaterials. Dr. R. Jayakumar joined ACNSMM during November-2007. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the Anna University, Chennai, India (2002). He has over 260 Journal publications, 15 book chapter and 12 patents to his credit. His publications have been cited more than 22600 times with h-index-77. In addition, he has also edited and published 7 books. Dr. Jayakumar's research laboratory at ACNSMM is mainly interested in the development of polymeric nanofibers, nanogels, nanoparticles, nanocomposite scaffolds and injectable hydrogels for tissue engineering, drug delivery and wound healing applications. He was awarded the University Postdoctoral Fellowship from Chonbuk National University (2002-2003), South Korea and FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Portugal (2003-2005). In addition, he was also awarded the prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. He has received the “Best Paper Award” from Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine (Springer) and IET Nanobiotechnology Journal. He received “Faculty Researcher Award-2016” from Indian Chitin and Chitosan Society and “MRSI Medal-2017” from Materials Research Society of India. He also received “India Research Excellence-Citation Awards 2017 (Health & Medical Science area)” from Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science. He is also reviewer and editorial board member of many international journals. He also completed more than 20 funded projects and 3 are ongoing.

• Introductory Aspects of Carboxymethyl Chitosan derivatives.- Preparation of Different Types of Carboxymethyl Chitosan Derivatives.- Carboxymethyl  Chitosan Derivatives and Its Interaction with Metal Ions.- Antimicrobial Properties of Carboxymetyl Chitosan Based Derivatives.- Synthesis of Carboxymethyl Chitosan Derivatives Based Hydrogels and Its Applications.- Synthesis of Carboxymethyl Chitosan Derivatives in Biosensing.- Carboxymethyl Chitosan Based Derivatives in Blood Clotting and Its Mechanism.- Electrospinning of Carboxymethyl Chitosan Based Derivatives and Its applications.- Carboxymethyl Chitosan Based Derivatives in  Diagnosis & Targeting.- Carboxymethyl Chitosan Derivatives for Drug and Vaccine Delivery: An overview.- Carboxymethyl Chitosan Derivatives in Tissue Engineering.- Functionalized Carboxymethyl Chitosan Based Derivatives in Wound Healing.