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This book explores the diverse applications of fungi in medical, pharmaceutical, and environmental sciences, highlighting their roles in drug development, chronic disease treatment, and environmental sustainability. It is intended for researchers of microbiology, mycology, pharmaceutical sciences, and environmental sciences.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Fungal Biology. Chapter 2: Introduction to Fungal Biotechnology. Chapter 3: Fungal Metabolites and Bioactive Compounds. Chapter 4: Genetic Engineering of Fungi. Chapter 5: Fungal Pathogenesis and Host Interactions. Chapter 6: Identifying Novel Fungi Species with Therapeutic Potential. Chapter 7: Fungal Biotechnology in Treatment of Chronic Diseases. Chapter 8: Fungal Biotechnology in The Biopharmaceutical Industry. Chapter 9: Diagnostic Techniques for Fungal Infections. Chapter 10: Challenges and Advancements in Developing Antifungal Medications. Chapter 11: Application of Fungal Biotechnology in Immunotherapy and Vaccine Development. Chapter 12: Fungal Biotechnology and Precision Medicine. Chapter 13: Fungal Nanobiotechnology in Drug Delivery Systems. Chapter 14: Fungi-Derived Ingredients in Cosmetics and Skincare. Chapter 15: Global Regulations and Standards for Fungal-Derived Products. Chapter 16: Mycotoxins and Food Safety Considerations: A Paradigm for the Risk of Mitigation and Public Health Protection. Chapter 17: Challenges and Opportunities in Fungal Biotechnology. Chapter 18: Fungal Enzymes in Biotechnology and Their Industrial Applications. Chapter 19: Role of Fungi in Environmental Cleanup and Pollution Control. Chapter 20: Ethical and Societal Implications of Fungal Biotechnology. Chapter 21: Future Trends in Emerging Technologies in Fungal Biotechnology. Chapter 22: Fungi as Probiotics: Properties and Applications. Chapter 23: From Forest to Pharmacy: Fungal Innovations in Medicine and Sustainability.
About the author
Dr. Arshad Farid is serving as an assistant professor at the Gomal Center of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Gomal University, D.I. Khan, Pakistan. He has approximately 17 years of teaching and research experience. He has supervised 13 MPhil research students and is mentoring several PhD candidates. He has more than 100 publications of international and national repute. His scientific activities are highly interdisciplinary, spanning medicinal plants, natural product chemistry, herbal drug development, ethnopharmacology, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and microbiology. He has served as editor for five books and authored over 50 book chapters. He holds 27 international patents (Germany, UK, South Africa, Japan, etc.) and has published over 15 abstracts in national and international conference proceedings. In 2023, Dr. Arshad was a fellow of the British Council Charles Wallace Fellowship program at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. He previously received a fellowship for "Training in Environmental, Agricultural, and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Techniques" from the Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, in 2007.
Dr. Gagan Preet has been serving as a teaching research fellow at the Marine Biodiscovery Research Centre, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, since 2019. He is an expert in marine natural product research, with a strong background in chemistry and specialized expertise in computational chemistry for drug design and discovery. He collaborates with institutions such as the Natural History Museum, the National Oceanography Centre, and the University of the South Pacific on the DEFRA, UK-funded project, DEEPEND. This project aims to understand the impacts of climate change and seabed mining on the ecology, microbiology, and chemistry of deep-sea biodiversity. Dr. Preet's research focuses on discovering new molecules to target the dengue virus (a neglected tropical disease), mucormycosis, and type 2 diabetes using computational and chemoinformatics approaches. He collaborates with other scientific laboratories to perform in vitro tests on the identified leads.
