Drug Delivery Using Nanomaterials

<p>After the drug discovery and development process designing suitable formulations to safely deliver the optimum dose while avoiding side effects has been a constant challenge especially when drugs are very toxic and have poor solubility and undesirable clearance profiles. With recent advances in synthetic technologies nanoparticles can be custom-made from a variety of advanced materials to mimic the bioenvironment and can be equipped with various targeting and imaging moieties for site-specific delivery and real-time imaging. <b>Drug Delivery Using Nanomaterials</b> covers advancements in the field of nanoparticle-based drug-delivery systems along with all the aspects needed for a successful and marketable nanoformulation.</p><p>FEATURES</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Offers a general overview of the entire process involved in the synthesis and characterization of pharmaceutical nanoparticles</li> <p> </p> <li>Covers a broad range of synthetic materials for developing nanoformulations customized for specific disease states target organs and drugs</li> <p> </p> <li>Every chapter sequentially builds providing a progressive pathway from classical nanoparticles to the more advanced to be used as a full drug product by consumers</li> <p> </p> <li>Provides information in a bottom-up manner in that definitions and explanations of relevant background information serve as a framework for understanding advanced concepts</li> </ul><p>This user-friendly reference is aimed at materials engineers chemical engineers biomedical engineers pharmaceutical scientists chemists and others working on advanced drug delivery from academia as well as industry.</p>