Marine Bioactive Molecules for Biomedical and Pharmacotherapeutic Applications

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.- FORWARD.- PREFACE.- ABOUT THE EDITORS.- ABOUT THE BOOK.- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.- Chapter 1 New Vistas and Frontiers of Marine Bioactive Molecules in Biomedical  and Pharmacotherapeutic Applications.-  Chapter 2 Bioprospection of Marine Sponge Microbiome for Bioactive Metabolites Employing Advanced Metagenomics Tools.- Chapter 3 Biomedical Applications of Marine Biopolymers in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.- Chapter 4 Metagenome Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Marine Microbial Natural Products.- Chapter 5 Marine Derived Pharmaceuticals in Biomedical Research: Current Developments and Future Prospects.- Chapter 6 Marine Polysaccharides - Prospects for Nanostructure Preparation and their Exploitation in Cancer Therapy.- Chapter 7 Marine Microbial Cell Mediated Nanomaterials Synthesis: Prospectus, Current Development and Challenges.- Chapter 8 A Potent Drug L- Asparaginase from Marine Origins: A Comprehensive Review.- Chapter 9 Marine Environment: A Treasure Trove of Natural Polymers for Tissue Engineering.- Chapter 10 Exploration of Bioactive Functional Molecules from Marine Algae: Challenges and Applications in Nutraceuticals.- Chapter 11 Properties of Violacein: A Promising Natural Pharmaceutical Secondary Metabolite from Marine Environment with Emphasis on its Anticancer activity.- Chapter 12 Exploitation of Marine-Derived Multifunctional Biomaterials in Biomedical Engineering and Drug Delivery.- Chapter 13 Marine Phytoplankton: Bioactive Compounds and Their Applications in Medicine.- Chapter 14 Neuroactive Peptides and Neuroprotective Molecules from Marine Sponges and Associated Bacteria: An Untapped Resource for Systemic Drug Development.

Dr. Pallaval Veera Bramhachari is currently an associate professor in the Department of Biosciences & Biotechnology at Krishna University, Machilipatnam, A.P State, India. He has earlier served as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR-Berghofoer Research Center), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and a DBT postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology (MCBL), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He completed his Ph.D. in microbiology from Goa University, India. His major research interests are the investigations in the areas of applied research in microbiology and molecular cell biology viz. exploring the biochemical mechanism of bacterial-biofilm formations, extracellular microbial polysaccharides (EPS), extracellular proteins (ECP) and the structure-function relationship of bacterial EPS, ECPs, biosurfactants (glycolipids and rhamnolipids), pathogenic and virulence characteristics of bacteria. He has published more than 150 research articles in Scopus-indexed journals, authored and co-authored 9 international books. He has served as a reviewer and editorial board for several International journals. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and organizations, like Indian Science Congress, Society of Biological Chemists, AMI & SBTI, India. He completed two major research projects from DST-SERB & DST-NRDMS, Govt of India.  He was conferred with various prestigious awards, notably, the Science Education Research Board (SERB), Government of India-Young Scientist award (2011) with a research project and Nominated as associate fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences (APAS)-2016, MASTER TRAINER: Andhra Pradesh English Communications Skills Project. British Council & APSCHE 2017, Andhra Pradesh State Best Scientist award-2017, Dr. V. Ramalingaswamy Memorial award for Biomedical Sciences-2019, KAPL Award