Preface
1. Introduction to Immunology Priya Katyal Batra, Anil Kumar Sharma, and Robinka Khajuriac
2. Immunity Sneha Choubey, Vikas Beniwal, Navnit Kumar Mishra, and Anil Kumar Sharma
3. Proteins of the Immune System Anil Kumar Bhankhar and Vikas Beniwal
4. Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC): Recent Trends and Relevance from Immunological Perspective J. C. Bose, Navnit Kumar Mishra, and Anil Kumar Sharma
5. Immune System of the Brain Sudheesh Pilakka Kanthikeel, Suresh Pallikkuth, Ranjini Valiathan, Anil Kumar Sharma, and Varghese K George
6. An Overview of Immunodeficiency Disorders Varghese K George, Suresh Pallikkuth, Anil Kumar Sharma, Ranjini Valiathan, and Sudheesh Pilakka Kanthikeel
7. Tumor Immunology Tapan K. Mukherjee
8. Preview of Antibody Engineering and Diversity: Trends, Scope, and Relevance J. C. Bose, Navnit Kumar Mishra, and Anil Kumar Sharma
9. Principals of Immunodetection and Immunotechniques: A Preview and Emerging Applications Shelza Thakur, Navnit Kumar Mishra, and Anil Kumar Sharma
10. Vaccines Rajasri Bhattacharyya and Dibyajyoti Banerjee
11. Immunoinformatics: A Modern Immunotherapeutic Approach to Immunology Navnit Kumar Mishra and Anil Kumar Sharma
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Biography
Anil K. Sharma is full professor and head of the Department of Biotechnology at Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), India, since 2010. From 2003 to 2010, he was a senior research scientist and a postdoctoral research fellow (molecular biology) at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, USA. He gained exposure to industrial R&D when he worked for Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, a multinational pharma major, as a research scientist from 2001 to 2003. Prof. Sharma has published 6 books and more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals with h-Index of 16 (i10 score of 23), and the cumulative impact factor of his publications is more than 130.0, with more than 1000 citations. He has been felicitated with many prestigious awards and accolades, including the Eminent Scientist Award (2017), Achiever Award of the Society for the Advancement of Human and Nature (2016), and Bharat Excellence Award (2013). He has been the editor or an editorial board member for several journals of international repute. His research interests range from the etiology of breast cancer, immunoregulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, drug resistance, and nanomedicines to the development of microbial strains for the remediation of heavy metals and pesticides.
