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COURSE Med BT: Nanotechnology in Medicine

(2 Credits, 1L, 1 T)
Unit 1
15 L
1.
Introduction to nanotechnology, History and scope, interdisciplinary
nature
2.
Nano medicine
3.
Drug delivery, protein and peptide delivery, Applications in cancer
biology
4.
Site Specific Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents Using
Nanoparticles, Increasing Bioavailability of a Compound , Active
Targeting, Magnetically Directed Targeting to Tumor Tissue , Ligand
Directed Active Targeting,
Targeted Drug Delivery Using Magnetic Nanoparticles, Controlled
Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Drugs Using Nanoparticles, antiAIDS
drugs, General medicine to personalized medicine,
5.
Nanomaterials characterization
Electron microscopy SEM, TEM, EDAX, Xray diffraction atomic force
microscopy, confocal microscopy, UVVisible spectroscopy,
photoluminescence spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, UV and Xray
photoelectron spectroscopy, particle size analysis, charge distribution
analysis (charge on the surface, estimation).
Unit 2
15 L
1.
Gene therapy
2.
Nanobiosensors:
a)
Electrochemical
b)
Optical
c)
Mass and acoustic
d)
Proteins: enzymes, antibiotics based biosensors
e)
Nucleic acids: DNA, RNA based biosensors
3.
Lab on a Chip

References

1. Biosensors and Biodetection, Editor(s): Avraham Rasooly, Keith E.


Herold, Springer Protocol.
2. Microdevices in Biology and Medicine, Yaakov Nahmias, Sangeeta N.
Bhatia Eds. Artech House 2009.
3. Biosensors, A Practical Approach, John Cooper and Tony Cass, Oxford
University Press, 2003.
4. Bio-nanotechnology
Proteins
to
Nanodevices,
Renugopalakrishnan and R. V. Lewis Eds.

Springer.

V.

5. Bio-nanotechnology Lessons from Nature D. S. Goodsell, John Wiley &


Sons, Inc.
6. Handbook of nanotechnology. Bhushan Ed., Springer.
7. Micro and Nano Manipulations for Biomedical Applications A. C. Yih and
I. Talpasanu Eds.
8. Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine: methods, device and
applications. Tuan VoDinh. Ed. CRC Press.

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