Stimuli-Responsive Nanocarriers: Recent Advances in Tailor-Made Therapeutics

Dr. Virendra Gajbhiye has been working in the field of nanomedicine for the last 15 years. He has a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Pharmaceutical Science with post-doctoral research experience at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oregon Health and Sciences University. Since 2013 he is working as a Scientist in Nanomedicine at Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India. He has worked extensively with polymeric nanoparticles specially dendrimers and mesoporous silica nanoparticles. His research interest lies in Nanomedicine, Targeted drug and siRNA delivery, Biomedical application of dendrimers, Biomaterials unimolecular micelles and imaging, Multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles, Nanoparticles in tissue engineering.

Dr. Kavita Gajbhiye has been working in the field of nanomedicine for the last 15 years. She completed her M. Pharm and Ph.D. at Dr. H. S. Gour University, Sagar, MP, India. She has worked as SERB National Post-doctoral Fellow at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India for two years. The major focus of her research is the synthesis and evaluation of dibolock and triblock polymer based nanoconstructs intended for drug delivery and other biomedical applications. She is presently working as Assistant Professor at Poona College of Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, India. Furthermore, as a principal investigator, she has received research grant from SERB, Govt. of India.

Prof. Seungpyo Hong is Professor of Pharmaceutics in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). He serves as Associate Editor for Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine (Elsevier). He graduated from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea with BS and MS degrees in polymer engineering. He started his PhD study in Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. After, he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer. From 2008 to 2014, Seungpyo was Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, and subsequently joined the UW-Madison faculty as full Professor in 2016. Since 2008, he has led a research group under the major research theme of “Biomimetic Nanotechnology for cancer diagnosis and treatment.