1st Edition
Fungal Biotechnology Advancements in Drug Discovery, Healthcare, and Environmental Solutions
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Fungal Biology
Sheetal S. Samant and Vijay A. Jagtap
Chapter 2: Introduction to Fungal Biotechnology
Beenish Rehman, Saman Khan, Vaneeza Tariq, Zarlashta Tariq, Alamgir Khan, Amane A. Alaroud, and Arshad Farid
Chapter 3: Fungal Metabolites and Bioactive Compounds
Maria Faraz, Saad Salman, Muhammad Nawaz, Roomah Javed, Sohail Ahmad, Mashael Naif Alanazi, and Arshad Farid
Chapter 4: Genetic Engineering of Fungi
Mishal Safdar, Maryam Aftab, Muneeb Ullah, Muhammad Naeem, and Abdul Wahab
Chapter 5: Fungal Pathogenesis and Host Interactions
Balwant Singh, Mukul M. Barwant, Shivangi Tripathi, and Pashupati N. Shukla
Chapter 6: Identifying Novel Fungi Species with Therapeutic Potential
Sulaiman Khan and Farah Hanani Binti Zulkifli
Chapter 7: Fungal Biotechnology in Treatment of Chronic Diseases
Sohail Ahmad, Maria Faraz, Iftikhar Ahmad, Muhammad Badar, Anosha Gul, Amin Ullah, Abdulkhaliq Jassem Alsalman, and Arshad Farid
Chapter 8: Fungal Biotechnology in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Ranjithkumar Murugesan and Manikandan Gurusamy
Chapter 09: Diagnostic Techniques for Fungal Infections
Syeda Qurbat Zahra, Hadia Baloch, Mona Awad Alanazi, Amin Ullah, and Arshad Farid
Chapter 10: Challenges and Advancements in Developing Antifungal Medications
Sohail Ahmad, Maria Faraz, Iftikhar Ahmad, Arshad Farid, and Gagan Preet
Chapter 11: Application of Fungal Biotechnology in Immunotherapy and Vaccine Development
Tehniyat Rida, Kashif Bashir, Abdul Basit, Jamshid Ullah, Muhammad S. Mubarak, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Maitham A. Al Hawaj, and Amin Ullah
Chapter 12: Fungal Biotechnology and Precision Medicine
Nilakshi Das, Shubhi Singh, and Priya Swaminathan
Chapter 13: Fungal Nanobiotechnology in Drug Delivery Systems
Roomah Javed, and Arshad Farid
Chapter 14: Fungi-Derived Ingredients in Cosmetics And Skincare
Khomotso V. Mmusi, David R. Katerere, Baatile Komane, and Manikandan Gurusamy
Chapter 15: Global Regulations and Standards for Fungal Derived Products
Mukul M. Barwant, Balwant Singh, Femina Sobin, Shalagha Sharma, and Renu Kumari
Chapter 16: Mycotoxins and Food Safety Considerations: A Paradigm for the Risk of Mitigation and Public Health Protection
Saba Mazhar Shah, Nadia Bibi, Sabeen Mazhar, Inam Ullah, Semih Yilmaz, and Amin Ullah
Chapter 17: Challenges and Opportunities in Fungal Biotechnology
Sadaf Khan, Muhammad Sirab Khan, Muhammad Mudasar Aslam, Zarbab Zulfiqar, and Nazneen Akhtar
Chapter 18: Fungal Enzymes in Biotechnology and Their Industrial Applications
Horriya Shabbir, Farah Shireen, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Rijah Afridi, Fazalullah Akhtar, Muhammad Rizwan, and Amin Ullah
Chapter 19: Role of Fungi in Environmental Cleanup and Pollution Control
Javeria Saeed, Bushra Rehman, Said Hassan, Madiha Iqbal, Sara Khan, and Amin Ullah
Chapter 20: Ethical and Societal Implications of Fungal Biotechnology
Oyindamola John Samson, Stephen Olaosebikan Makanjuola, Hafeez Aderinsayo Adekola, Jamiu Oluwatosin Adeyemi, and Ismail Babatunde Onajobi
Chapter 21: Future Trends in Emerging Technologies in Fungal Biotechnology
Shradha Chaudhari, Bhavi Nair, Siddhi Tambe, Parth Joshi, and Satish Polshettiwar
Chapter 22: Fungi as Probiotics: Properties and Applications
Abrar Hussain, Nighat Rabbani, Muhammad Areeb, Sundus Malik, and Syed Abid Ali
Chapter 23: From Forest to Pharmacy: Fungal Innovations in Medicine and Sustainability
Faizan Ali, Muhammad Usman Qamar, Sundas Ashraf, Muhammad Arif, and Shafeeq Ur Rehman
Biography
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.
