Oxides for Medical Applications. Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials

Authors

Piyush Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Haryana, Haryana, India. Dr. Piyush Kumar is employed as Associate Professor at School of Health Sciences & Technology, UPES, Dehradun, India. He did his M.Sc. in Biophysics (2003-2005, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology) and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (2006-2010, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand). He has worked as a Research Associate at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee during 2010-2014 and as a MHRD post-doc researcher at the same institute during 2014-2017 and as Assistant Professor at Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Haryana during 2017-2020. Dr. Kumar's research contributions are highly interdisciplinary. His research interests are Nanobiosensors, functionalized nanomaterials, and applications of probiotic enzymes in value addition of food. He has actively worked in the designing and constructing of Aptasensors and nanoengineered surface modification strategies for pathogenic bacteria and hazardous xenobiotic molecules, nano and natural products based combinatorial strategies to control pathogens and therapeutic applications probiotic enzymes. He is principal investigator in several research grant funded by the Government of India. Ganeshlenin Kandasamy Assistant Professor, Department Biomedical Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India. Dr. Ganeshlenin Kandasamy has completed his Masters in Nanotechnology from Karunya University, Coimbatore & PhD from Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR in 2019 with specialization in "Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications�. He is currently working as an Assistant. Professor in the Department Biomedical Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India. He has published several papers in reputable journals like J. Coll. & Inter. Sci., J. Mol. Liq., ACS Omega, RSC Adv., and has reviewed manuscripts for well-known publishers. His research interests include the synthesis, characterization, and optimization of multifunctional nanoparticles - especially spinel ferrite nanoparticles and carbon quantum dots (CQDs), their polymeric co-encapsulation with potential CTDs, and subsequent application in MRI, fluorescence imaging, MFH based thermotherapy, and combined thermo-/chemo-therapies for the treatment of different type of cancers. Jitendra Pal Singh Ramanujan Fellow, Department of Sciences, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Haryana, India. Dr. Jitendra Pal Singh is currently working as Ramanujan Fellow at Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Haryana, India. Dr. Singh earned his PhD from the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. He has been associated with Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, South Korea, prior to his current appointment. Pawan Kumar Maurya Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh (Haryana), INDIA. Prof. Pawan Kumar Maurya is Dean, School of Life Long Learning & Head of Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Haryana, India. He has done a PhD from the University of Allahabad (A Central University), India & post-doctoral training from Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo-UNIFESP, Brazil; Taipei Medical University (TMU) and National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience. He is working on biochemical diagnostics, nanomedicine, and clinical biochemistry. He has published over 75 research articles in reputed journals. He has also edited of six books published from Elsevier, USA and Springer-Nature, Singapore. He is recipient of prestigious fellowships: Science without Borders (Government of Brazil) and National Science Council, Taiwan.