Plant Polysaccharides as Pharmaceutical Excipients

Edited by:   Amit Kumar Nayak (Department of Pharmaceutics School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University) Bhubaneswar Odisha India), Md Saquib Hasnain, Ph.D (Department of Pharmacy, Palamau Institute of Pharmacy, Daltonganj, Jharkhand, India), Dilipkumar Pal (Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidash Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India)
Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 191mm, 
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:   9780323907804
ISBN 10:   0323907806
Pages:   646
Publication Date:   23 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr. Amit Kumar Nayak (MPharm, PhD) is working as a professor, at the Department of Pharmaceutics, 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. Prof. (Dr.) Md Saquib Hasnain has over 10 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 70 publications in various high impact peer-reviewed journals, more than 100 book chapters and 16 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 in Google Scholar (h-index: 32). 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. Dr. Dilipkumar Pal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidash Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India. He received his master and PhD degree from Jadavpur Universty, Kolkata, and performed post-doctoral research as Endeavour research fellow in University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include phytochemical pharmacological evaluation of indigenous plants and natural biopolymers. He has published 177 full research papers in peer-reviewed national and international scientific journals, and contributed 115 abstracts in different national and international conferences. He has written one book and 68 book chapters and edited seven books published by reputed international publishers. Dr. Pal had received 13 national and international professional awards and has guided seven PhD and 39 master students for their dissertation thesis. He is the reviewer and Editorial Board member of 27 and 29 scientific journals, respectively. Dr Pal is the Editor-in-Chief of the research journal SPER Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Research.