Macrophage Targeted Delivery Systems

Dr. Swati Gupta is an author and Professor of Pharmaceutics at Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. She did her post-graduation and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences with specialization in Pharmaceutics from Dr. Hari Singh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, India. She has been awarded with GATE fellowship, Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, and Senior Research Fellowship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India. Dr. Gupta has nearly twenty years of research/teaching experience. She has supervised 25 M.Pharm and 4 Ph.D. scholars. Dr. Gupta has over fifty publications to her credit published in international journals of high scientific impact and has contributed several chapters in many outstanding reference books. She is also the author of 5 books. Dr. Gupta has presented several research papers in international/national conferences and also served as the reviewer of several international journals like Molecular Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Research, and Nature Scientific Report etc. She is also the recipient of prestigious young scientist awards, BOYSCAST fellowship of Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi for postdoctoral research in the USA, Bio-CARe Women Scientist award with a research grant of 22 Lakhs of Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi and Teachers Associateship in Research Excellence (TARE) Award of Science & Engineering Research Board. Her research interests include drug delivery using nanocarriers against intracellular infections, drug targeting, molecular pharmaceutics, and nanotoxicity.

Dr. Yashwant Pathak completed his education M.S., Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India and EMBA and MS Conflict Management from Sullivan University, USA. He is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Tenured Professor, at the Taneja College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida. Tampa, Florida, USA. With extensive experience in academia and industry, he has over 200 publications research papers, abstracts, chapters and reviews, 11 books in Nanotechnology and 6 in drug delivery systems, 12 in Nutraceuticals and several books in cultural studies (total over 50 edited volumes). His areas of research include drug delivery systems, nano biomaterials, nanotechnology applications in pharmacy, risk management and nanotechnology and Nutraceuticals. He has travelled extensively over 80 countries and is actively involved with many Pharmacy Colleges in different countries. He is also adjunct professor at Faculty of Pharmacy, Airlangga University , Surabaya, Indonesia