Chitosan for Biomaterials V: Insight into Pharmaceutical Uses

This volume offers an overview of Chitosan's role in facilitating peptide and biomolecule delivery, microbial resistance in wound care, tissue engineering, hemostasis, and drug delivery. It further delves into the challenges and potential applications of chitosan and its chemically modified derivatives within the pharmaceutical industry, with a particular focus on ocular and oral drug delivery, as well as targeted drug delivery systems. Moreover, this volume sheds light on the prominent use of chitosan and its derivatives, whether in their original forms or as membranes, beads, scaffolds, or films, within the domains of tissue engineering, wound healing, and hemostasis. Collectively, this comprehensive exploration aims to enhance our understanding of recent advancements and innovative chitosan-based systems in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications, thereby illuminating the myriad possibilities that lie ahead.

Dr. R. Jayakumar - Professor at Amrita School of Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ASNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Kochi-682041, India-specializing in Polymeric Biomaterials. Dr. R. Jayakumar joined ASNSMM in November-2007. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from Anna University, Chennai, India (2002). He has over 300 Journal publications, 30 book chapters and 10 patents. His publications have been cited more than 30000 times with h-index-90. In addition, he has also edited and published 10 books.

Dr. Jayakumar's research laboratory at ACNSMM is mainly interested in developing polymeric nanofibers, nanogels, nanoparticles, nanocomposite scaffolds, and injectable hydrogels for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and wound healing applications. He was awarded the University Postdoctoral Fellowship from Chonbuk National University (2002-2003), South Korea, and the FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Portugal (2003-2005). In addition, he was also awarded the prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. He has received the “Best Paper Award” from the Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine (Springer) and IET Nanobiotechnology Journal. He received the “Faculty Researcher Award-2016” from Indian Chitin and Chitosan Society and “MRSI Medal-2017” from the Materials Research Society of India. He also received the “India Research Excellence-Citation Awards 2017 (Health & Medical Science area)” from Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science. Recently, he was selected as a “World top 2% scientists from India” in “Polymers” field by Stanford University, USA in the year of 2021, 2022 & 2023. He also be listed in the “Top 10 Material Science Researchers from India” by “Research.com”.  He received “Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award (AIRA)-2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023” from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), India. He is also a reviewer and editorial board member of many international journals. He also completed more than 20 funded projects, and 4 are ongoing.