Polysaccharide Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine

Edited by:   Tapan Kumar Giri (Department of Pharmaceutical Technology Jadavpur University Kolkata India), Bijaya Ghosh (NSHM Knowledge Campus-Kolkata Group of Institution, Kolkata, India), Hemant Badwaik (Associate Professor and Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India)
Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 191mm, 
Weight:   860g
ISBN:   9780323953511
ISBN 10:   0323953514
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   14 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tapan Kumar Giri was educated at Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India), where he received Pharmacy degrees viz: B.Pharm, M.Pharm and Ph.D. With 18 years of teaching experience, he was associated with some prestigious institutes in India. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His diverse research interests include drug delivery, biopolymers, hydrogels, micro and nanosized dosage forms. He has supervised about thirty (30) M.Pharm. projects and published about seventy (70) research articles in peer reviewed journals along with 16 book chapters. He has authored two pharmacy research books and also edited two research books (CRC Press and Elsevier). He has served as a Guest Editor of Current Chemical Biology Journal, Bentham Science. Two of his research articles published by Elsevier received the distinction of high cited article award. In 2017, he was honored with the best teacher award of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology. He was also recognized as the world’s top 2% Indian scientist in 2019. Bijaya Ghosh has been in the profession of teaching for the last 34 years and has taught undergraduate and graduate Pharmacy students in some premier institutions of North and South India. Currently, she is working as a Professor (Pharmaceutics) at NSHM Knowledge Campus-Kolkata Group of Institutions. She received her B.Pharm, M.Pharm and PhD degrees from Jadavpur University in 1983, 1986 and 1994, respectively. Keenly interested in experimenting with new concepts, she has worked in diverse fields like oral sustained release dosage form, transdermal drug delivery, iontophoresis and therapeutic drug monitoring. She has published over forty (40) research papers in peer reviewed International and National Journals. She has authored three pharmacy text books and also co-edited two research books (CRC Press and Elsevier). Equally interested in literature, she has produced a couple of novels and a series of English short stories. Dr. Hemant Badwaik is presently working as an Associate Professor in Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. He has 13 years of teaching experience in the field of Pharmacy. He teaches Pharmaceutical Analysis and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at both undergraduate and post graduate levels. Dr. Badwaik has 40 scientific publications, along with two textbooks and four book chapters to his credit. Mainly a synthetic chemist, his research is focused on the synthesis and screening of novel organic molecules and modification of natural polymers. Dr. Hemant Badwaik is an Editorial Board Member of Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening (Bentham Science) and SF Journal of Pharmaceutical and Analytical Chemistry. In 2017, he received the Young Scientist Award (Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences) of the 15th Chhattisgarh Young Scientist Congress