Nutraceuticals in Respiratory and Pulmonary Diseases

Details nutraceuticals effective in managing and treating respiratory diseases. Discusses the role of vitamins, minerals, and functional foods in the prevention and treatment of respiratory illnesses. Uncovers how different nutraceuticals have targeted various cellular and molecular pathways involved in the pathogenesis of COPD.

Deepika Saini, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at Chamanlal Mahavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. She has five years of teaching experience. She was formerly a faculty member in the Natural Science Department of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Salisbury, Maryland, USA. She has edited four books and has published papers in national and international journals. She has presented papers at national and international seminars and conferences and also attended many workshops. She acts as a reviewer and editorial board member for more than eight international and national journals, including American Journal of Life Sciences, International Journal of Zoological Studies, International Journal of Biological Studies, among others. During the pandemic, she organized five webinars with reputed institutes, such as the Zoological Survey of India and Botanical Survey of India. She has organized two national conferences funded by the Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology, Dehradun and Uttarakhand Council for Biotechnology, Dehradun, India. Dr. Saini has been awarded a Best Teacher Award 2020 from the Society of Research in Biological Studies.

Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech, is working as Associate Professor, Department of Computer Application, Nehru Gram Bharati (Deemed to be University), Prayagraj, India. He has more than 11 years of research and nine years of teaching experience at various institutes of India, imparting bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar by The National Academy of Sciences of India. He has supervised one PhD and more than 20 undergraduate and graduate students for their research work. Dr. Kesharwani has authored over 49 peer-reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, and 14 edited books with international publishers. He has been a member of many scientific communities as well as a reviewer for many international journals. He has presented many papers at various national and international conferences. He has been a recipient of a Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) Fellowship and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, nanobiotechnology, and biomedical sciences. Dr. Kesharwani received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, and worked at NIT Warangal for two semesters.

Raj K. Keservani, PhD, MPharm, is working as Associate Professor in the Faculty of B. Pharmacy at the CSM Group of Institutions, Prayagraj, India. He has more than 12 years of academic (teaching) experience from various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has supervised more than 25 undergraduate students for their research work. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, six patents, over 70 book chapters, three co-authored books, and over 40 edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery/drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology. Dr. Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. He received his Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) (specialization in pharmaceutics) from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India. He earned his PhD degree from IKG Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Dr. Keservani is a life member of the Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER).