Book description
This book covers various aspects of antibody mediated drug delivery
systems - theoretical aspects, processing, viral and non-viral vectors,
and fields where these systems find and /or are being evaluated for
applications as therapeutics and diagnostic treatment. Chapters discuss
actual applications of techniques used for formulation and
characterization. Applications areas include cancer, pulmonary, ocular
diseases; brain drug delivery; and vaccine delivery. The contributing
authors represent over 10 different countries, covering recent
developments happening around the globe.
Yashwant Pathak, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
at the College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa,
Florida. Dr. Pathak studied pharmaceutical technology at Nagpur
University, India, and conflict management at Sullivan University,
Kentucky. With extensive experience in academia as well as industry,
he has more than 100 publications, abstracts, and reviews, two
patents, five books on nanotechnology, and two books on nutraceuticals
to his credit. His areas of research include drug delivery systems and
their characterization in animal models.
Simon Benita, PhD, is Head of the School of Pharmacy, Director
of the Institute for Drug Research, and Professor of the Faculty of
Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds twenty-two
patents and has written 143 journal papers and seventeen book
chapters. Dr. Benita has also edited three other books.
