Nanoscience in Dermatology

1. Anatomy and Function of the Skin Yolanda Gilaberte, Lucia Prieto-Torres, Ievgenia Pastushenko and Ángeles Juarranz

2. Fundamentals of Nanoscience (and Nanotechnology) G. Louis Hornyak and Anil K. Rao

3. An Overview of Nanomaterials in Dermatology Breanne Mordorski, Angelo Landriscina, Adam Friedman

4. Clinical Impact and Patient Safety: The Potential of Microneedles in Changing the Form and Perception of Transdermal Drug Delivery Aaron J. Brady and Ryan F. Donnelly

5. Inorganic nanoparticles for transdermal drug delivery and topical application Min Wang, Srujan Kumar Marepally, Praveen Kumar Vemula and Chenjie Xu

6. Biodegradable, Biocompatible and Bioconjugate Materials as Delivery Agents in Dermatology Fiorenza Rancan

7. Peptide Dendrimers in Delivery of Bioactive Molecules to Skin Jyothsna Menon, Aswathi R Hegde, Harendra S. Parekh and Srinivas Mutalik

8. Insights into Interactions of Gold Nanoparticles with the Skin and Potential Dermatological Applications Nesma El-Sayed, Labiba El-Khourdagui and Marc Schneider

9. Formulation Effects on Topical Nanoparticle Penetration Heather A.E. Benson, Yousuf Mohammed, Jeffrey E. Grice, Michael S. Roberts

10. Nitric Oxide-Releasing Nanoparticles as an Antimicrobial Therapeutic Jamie Rosen, Angelo Landriscina, and Joshua D. Nosanchuk

11. Nanoparticles in the topical treatment of cutaneous Leishmaniasis: gaps, facts and perspectives Socorro Espuelas, Juana Schwartz and Esther Moreno

12. Nanotechnology based nano-bullets in antipsoriatic drug delivery: state of the art Mahfoozur Rahman, Sarwar Beg , Firoz Anwar, and Vikas Kumar

13. Nanoparticles for Treatment of atopic dermatitis Mona M. A. Abdel-Mottaleb

14. Challenges and opportunities of nanoparticle-based theranostics in skin cancer Stefania Pizzimenti, Chiara Dianzani, Gian Paolo Zara, Carlo Ferretti, Federica Rossi, Casimiro Luca Gigliotti,

Michael R Hamblin Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and is a member of the affiliated faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. He was trained as a synthetic organic chemist and received his PhD from Trent University in England. His research interests lie in the areas of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for infections, cancer, and heart disease and in low-level light therapy (LLLT) for wound healing, arthritis, traumatic brain injury and hair-regrowth. He directs a laboratory of around a sixteen post-doctoral fellows, visiting scientists and graduate students. His research program is supported by NIH, CDMRP, USAFOSR and CIMIT among other funding agencies. He has published 252 peer-reviewed articles, over 150 conference proceedings, book chapters and International abstracts and holds 8 patents. He is Associate Editor for 7 journals, on the editorial board of a further 12 journals and serves on NIH Study Sections. For the past 9 years Dr Hamblin has chaired an annual conference at SPIE Photonics West entitled "Mechanisms for low level light therapy" and he has edited the 9 proceedings volumes together with four other major textbooks on PDT and photomedicine. He has several other book projects in progress at various stages of completion. In 2011 Dr Hamblin was honored by election as a Fellow of SPIE. Pinar Avci, MD is a Research Fellow in Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Department of Dermatology, Boston USA. She received her MD degree in General Medicine from Semmelweis University, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermato-oncology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. She is currently conducting research in the area of Photodynamic therapy (PDT) - a localized approach for treatment of cancer and