Chitosan in Biomedical Applications

Md Saquib Hasnain (Ph.D) is currently working as the Professor and Dean, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Barasat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has over 13 years of research experience in the field of drug delivery and pharmaceutical formulation analyses, especially systematic development and characterization of diverse nanostructured drug delivery systems, controlled release drug delivery systems, bioenhanced drug delivery systems, nanomaterials and nanocomposites employing Quality by Design approaches and many more. Till date he has authored over 100 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals, more than 100 book chapters and 30 books to his credit. He is also serving as the reviewer of several prestigious journals. Overall, he has earned a highly impressive publishing and cited record. He has also participated and presented his research work at over ten conferences in India, and abroad. He was also a member of scientific societies i.e., Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain, International Association of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry, Switzerland and Swiss Chemical Society, Switzerland. Sarwar Beg, PhD is currently serving as AMS-DBT Newton International Fellow at University of Central Lancashire, UK, and working in the area of glioblastoma research using targeted nanomedicines. He is also serving as the Assistant Professor at Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. He has over a decade of teaching and research experience in the field of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics, especially in the development of novel and nanostructured drug delivery systems using Quality-by-Design paradigms with core expertise in computational pharmaceutics, experimental designs and multivariate statistical techniques. He has authored over 200 publications, 60 book chapters, 15 books, 03 Indian patent applications and H-Index of 40 with over 5400 citations to his credit. Amit Kumar Nayak (M. Pharm, Ph.D) is currently working as Professor at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,Siksha ‘O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India. He has earned his PhD from IFTM University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has over 14 years of research experiences in the field of pharmaceutics, especially in the development and characterization of novel biopolymeric and nanostructured drug delivery systems. Till date, he has authored more than 138 research and review publications in various high-impact peer-reviewed journals and 135 book chapters. He has edited/authored 23 international books to his credit. Dr. Nayak has presented his research work at several conferences. He has received University Foundation Day Research Award, 2019 and 2022 by Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. Dr. Nayak is a life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) and a registered pharmacist.

• 1. Introduction to chitosan, a versatile biomedical polymer2. Biological and pharmacological activities of chitosan3. Antimicrobial applications of chitosan4. Micro- and nano-scale chitosan-based particles for biomedical uses5. Biomedical applications of chitosan-based hydrogels6. Electrospun chitosan for biomedical applications7. Chitosan nanocomposites for biomedical applications8. Uses of chitosan in drug delivery9. Chitosan-based nanotherapeutics10. Chitosan-based systems in diabetes treatment11. Uses of chitosan in cancer therapeutics12. Environmental stimuli-sensitive chitosan nanocarriers in therapeutics13. Colon-targeting by chitosan systems14. Protein and peptide delivery by chitosan systems15. Gene and growth factor delivery by chitosan systems16. Mucosal vaccination through chitosan-based delivery systems17. Enzyme immobilizations by using chitosan systems18. Applications of chitosan in orthopaedics and dentistry19. Chitosan-based scaffolds in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine20. Wound healing/dressing applications of chitosan systems21. Coating of chitosan onto bone implants22. Bioimaging applications of chitosan-based systems23. Drawbacks of chitosan usage in biomedical area