Polymer Nanoparticle Technologies for Gene Delivery and Gene Therapy

Polymer Nanoparticle Technologies for Gene Delivery and Gene Therapy focuses on the concept of polymer nanoparticles applications in gene delivery and gene therapy. Gene therapy is a relatively young branch of medicine that has the potential to relieve and treat numerous illnesses that are resistant to standard treatment. Polymers used to form nanoparticles can be both synthetic and natural polymers. These nanocarriers have been demonstrated for use as a variety of applications: such as drug delivery, imaging, and detection of apoptosis. This book covers many of the cationic polymers have been studied both in vitro and in vivo for gene delivery.

Dr. Naghib is an associate professor at the Iran University of Science and Technology, Department of Nanotechnology. His research interests are devoted to understanding and using the process by which nature makes materials in order to design and fabricate new nanomaterials and nanobiomaterials for biomedical applications. His work is highly interdisciplinary in nature and brings together the fields of chemistry, materials sciences, biotechnology, biochemistry, biology, medical sciences, pharmaceutics, mathematics, physics and engineering.