1st Edition
Drug Repurposing Chemistry, Biochemistry & Red Biotechnology
Preface
1. Polypharmacology: Drug Promiscuity Enabled by Protein Promiscuity
Munishwar Nath Gupta and Vladimir N. Uversky
2. Approaches to Identify and Repurpose Drugs for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Shahnaz Alom, Bibhuti B. Kakoti, Rasmita Khatonier and Abhisek Dasgupta
3. Drug Repurposing for Psychiatric Diseases
Ryo Okuyama
4. Drug Repurposing as a Novel Approach to Cancer Treatment
Siddhi Nakashe, Nehal Joshi and Premlata Ambre
5. Anticancer Drugs for Repurposing Against Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Irene Molina Panadero and Younes Smani
6. Repurposing Drugs for Effective Treatment of Tuberculosis: A Promising Approach
Mohd Shariq, Javaid Ahmad Sheikh, Farhan Ahmed, Anwar Alam, Seyed E. Hasnain and Nasreen Z. Ehtesham
7. Repurposing Drugs as Anthelmintics: Expanding the Therapeutic Arsenal Against Parasitic Worm Infections
Henrique Bunselmeyer Ferreira, Marcelo Pasa Panesso and Marina Monteiro Guedes
8. Applications of Nanomaterials for Drug Repurposing
Iris Renata Sousa Ribeiro, Heidie da Silva Torrers, Amanda Bellini Silva, Pollyana Baptista Buist and Leandro Ramos Souza Barbosa
9. A Review of the Use of Existing Vaccines as a First Line of Defense in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Alberto Rubio-Casillas, Vladimir N. Uversky and Elrashdy M. Redwan
Index
Biography
Munishwar Nath Gupta taught chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology at IIT Delhi [1975-2018]. A PhD in biochemistry from IISc Bangalore was followed by post-docs at University of Minnesota, USA; MIT, USA; UTC, France and Lund University, Sweden. He is a fellow of NASI, Allahabad and INSA, New Delhi. He has published over 300 scientific articles and edited 7 books so far. His current h-index is 63.
