Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery and Neurological Diseases Management

Nanomaterials and Nanocarriers: Basic Properties.- Inorganic, Organic and Polymer-Based Nanomaterials.- Fundamentals of Drug Delivery.- Smart development of nanomaterials and Nanomedicine Formulations.- Nanomaterials and Neurological Disorders Management.- Nanoparticle-based treatment of Central Nervous System (CNS) Diseases.- Nanomaterials for diagnosis and treatment of common neurological disorders.- Biodegradable Nanocarries and disease management.- Targeted nano based drug delivery in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia.- Nanomaterials as drug delivery vehicles for therapy of Parkinson's Disease.- The use of microbial nanoparticle to treat neurodegenerative disorders.- Aspects of nanomedicines' safety and nanotoxicity for brain-targeted drug delivery.

Santosh Kumar Rath is a medicinal and natural product chemist with more than 10 years of experience in research, academia, and industry. Rath's received his doctorate from AcSIR at CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar, India. Presently he is working as Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Department of SoPPHI, Faculty of Pharmacy, DIT University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Formerly, he worked as an Associate Professor and Research Head at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Danteshwari College of Pharmacy, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India (2020-2022). He also worked as Research Associate (CSIR-RA) in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India (2018-2020). He received Research Associateship from CSIR in 2018 and Senior Research Fellowship (ICMR-SRF) from ICMR, New Delhi India in 2013. He did research at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine(CSIR-IIIM), Jammu, India. He has many publications to his credit, published more than 27 research papers in highly reputed international journals, as well as 4 book chapters two edited books, and 1 Indian patent. His area of research is Natural Product Chemistry and Organic Synthesis, in which he is expertise in the isolation, identification, and characterization of bioactive secondary metabolites, and structural modification of major chemical constituents from plants as well as fungal sources. He is acquainted with various chromatographic techniques such as column, Preparative TLC, and HPLC for separating and purifying compounds. He is well aware of the interpretation of spectroscopic data viz., 1D and 2DNMR, MASS, IR, etc. His research involves multistep synthesis of biologically active synthetic and/or natural product-based hybrid scaffolds for lead identification in special targets for neurological disease, cancer, HIV, Covid-19, and infectious diseases. His research mainly