Therapeutic Peptides

Nisha Gaur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Gautam Buddha University, India. She serves on the editorial board and reviewer for several reputed journals. Her research interests include the development of nanomaterials and peptides to combat microbes, as well as the microbial degradation of organic and inorganic pollutants. Dr. Gaur has authored more than 23 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed 25 book chapters, and edited two books. She is also a member of the Association of Microbiologists of India.Santanu Sasidharan is a Michael Smith Health Research Trainee at the Michael Smith Laboratories (MSL) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. His research focuses on developing next-generation therapeutics, including small molecules, peptides, antibodies, and vaccines, targeting infectious diseases, as well as advancing the understanding of protein biochemistry. Dr. Santanu has authored more than 40 research articles in reputed journals, contributed 16 book chapters, and holds three patents. He is an active member of The Protein Society, the Biophysical Society of Canada, the Society of Biological Chemists, and the British Society for Parasitology.Nagendra Singh is the Head and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Gautam Buddha University, India. His research interests encompass structural biology, protein biochemistry, structure-based drug design, and protein crystallography. Dr. Singh has published over 70 peer-reviewed international research papers. He has received numerous awards, including the National Academy of Sciences of India (NASI) Young Scientist Award, the Venus International Foundation Young Scientist Award, the DST Young Scientist Award, the Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students Award in Medicine from Lindau, Germany, and the Medal for Best Ph.D. Thesis. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian Biophysical Society, the Indian Crystallographic Association, and the International Union of Crystallography. His current research focuses on elucidating the structure and functions of enzymes and proteins involved in RNA metabolism in both bacteria and humans.

• Chapter 1: Peptide Therapeutics: Historical Perspectives, Future Directions, and Recent Trends in Development. Chapter 2: Sequence and structural analysis of plant cysteine-rich peptide. Chapter 3: Recent insight into Structure-Function Relationship of therapeutic peptides. Chapter 4: De Novo Design, Synthesis, Modification, and Mechanistic Evaluation of Therapeutic Peptides. Chapter 5: Rational Engineering of Therapeutic Peptides: Tools and Techniques. Chapter 6: Conventional and Advanced Peptide-based Targeted Delivery Systems. Chapter 7: Antimicrobial peptides: A promising class of antimicrobial compounds.nChapter 8: Peptide-Based Vaccines: Current Progress And Future Challenges. Chapter 9: Anti-Cancer Peptides: Role in Cancer Therapeutics. Chapter 10: Natural and Synthetic Neuropeptides as therapeutic agents for Neurological Disorders. Chapter 11: Peptides in Metabolic Disorders. Chapter 12: Peptide-Based Immunotherapy For Autoimmune Disease: Current Challenges And Future Progress. Chapter 13: Toxicity of Biologically Active Peptide and Future Safety Aspects. Chapter 14: Patent implications and intellectual rights on Therapeutic Peptides. Chapter 15: Commercialization of Peptide Therapeutics. Chapter 16: Challenges in Theragnostic developments from extracellular peptides and their implications in Precision medicine. Chapter 17: Recent advances in therapeutic peptides against viral diseases.