In Situ Gellable Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering

Tapan Kumar Giri is a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He completed his B.Pharm., M.Pharm., and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmacy from Jadavpur University. With 24 years of teaching experience, he has been associated with several prestigious institutes across India. His research focuses on drug delivery, biopolymers, and nano- and microsized dosage forms, with current projects exploring in situ gelling hydrogels for ocular and wound-healing applications. His broader research interests include hydrogels and micro- and nanosized drug delivery systems.

He has published over 70 SCI-indexed articles, authored/edited six books on hydrogel-based drug delivery, and contributed 23 book chapters. He has supervised approximately 38 M.Pharm. projects. Dr. Giri has also served as a Guest Editor for the Current Chemical Biology journal published by Bentham Science. Notably, two of his research articles published by Elsevier have received the distinction of being high-cited articles. He received the Best Teacher Award in 2017 and has been ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists for the past six years.

Bijaya Ghosh is a Professor of Pharmaceutics at NSHM Knowledge Campus-Kolkata Group of Institutions. She has dedicated 37 years to teaching, imparting pharmacy education to undergraduate and graduate students at prestigious institutions in India. Her research focuses on transdermal systems, iontophoresis, and hydrogel-based drug delivery systems, with interests in oral sustained-release dosage forms and therapeutic drug monitoring. She has published around 50 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals, authored three pharmacy textbooks, and co-edited three research volumes. Bijaya earned her B.Pharm, M.Pharm, and Ph.D. degrees from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She serves as the editor of the NSHM Journal of Pharmacy and Health Care Management and is passionate about literature, having published short stories and novels in Bengali and English.