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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dr. Prashant Kesharwani is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, India. His work focuses on translational nanomedicine, polymeric biomaterials, targeted drug delivery, nanoengineered drug delivery systems, and translational pharmaceutical research. He has contributed extensively to the scientific literature and has served as an editor of scholarly books. Dr. Kesharwani has received research funding from national agencies and has been recognized with awards and fellowships for his contributions to the field. His research interests include nanomedicine, targeted and stimuli-responsive drug delivery, polymeric nanocarriers, and related pharmaceutical applications. He is actively involved in scientific research, academic mentoring, and scholarly publishing.

Dr. Kishore M. Paknikar is Professor Agharkar Chair and former Director of Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India. He is a MSc in Microbiology (1980) and a PhD in Microbiology (1984) from the University of Poona, India. His work in the field of delivery systems focuses on the delivery of drugs, proteins, peptides, siRNA, and nutrients. He is also exploring systems like polymeric nanoparticles and dendrimers for delivery of bioactive molecules in the treatment of cancers, Alzheimer’s disease, candidiasis, etc. He has more than 120 publications in highly reputed journals and 33 patents to his credit. He was a visiting Professor at Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg, France) and Wayne State University (School of Medicine, Detroit, USA). He also worked as a Research Advisor at National Nanotechnology Centre (Ministry of Science and Technology), Bangkok, Thailand. He has several fellowships and awards to his credit.

Dr. Virendra Gajbhiye has been working in the field of nanomedicine for the last 15 years. He has a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Pharmaceutical Science with post-doctoral research experience at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oregon Health and Sciences University. Since 2013 he is working as a Scientist in Nanomedicine at Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India. He has worked extensively with polymeric nanoparticles specially dendrimers and mesoporous silica nanoparticles. His research interest lies in Nanomedicine, Targeted drug and siRNA delivery, Biomedical application of dendrimers, Biomaterials unimolecular micelles and imaging, Multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles, Nanoparticles in tissue engineering.