Organelle–Specific Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

Volkmar Weissig, ScD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. He has been actively pioneering mitochondrial pharmaceutics for the last decade. The holder of sixteen patents and author of more than eighty research papers, review articles, and book chapters, Dr. Weissig serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Liposome Research and is the member of several other editorial boards. He is an active member of the International Liposome Society, the Mitochondria Research Society, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Gerard G.M. D'Souza, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. He has coauthored more than twenty peer-reviewed publications in the fields of pharmaceutical nanotechnology and mitochondrial pharmaceutics. Dr. D'Souza is a member of the editorial board for the Journal Drug Delivery and serves as a peer reviewer for several journals in the field of drug delivery.

This book provides a unique focus on the application of nanotechnology to the sub-cellular level with respect to drug delivery and probing inter-cellular milieu. It provides a comprehensive review of the latest in this new, interdisciplinary field of biomedical research.