Date: 5/3/2008
TUMSPR News: On April 29, 2008, professor S. Ahmad, the vice-chancellor of the Indian Jamia Hamdard University, gave a lecture on nanosciences and its applications in Health sciences.
Professor S. Ahmad, while on a three-day visit to Iran with his fellow countrymen to participate in a joint Iran-India nanotechnology conference on 27-29 April 2009, gave a lecture on nanosciences and its applications in Health sciences at the Faculty of Traditional medicine. Faculty members and student were present at the session.
The professor said that drug discovery was a time-consuming process in modern medicine with a cost of around 100,000,000 dollars and a time span of 10 years with a low success rate and numerous side-effects. But employing nanoscience in herbal medicines would enable us to reduce the doses while achieving a maximum efficacy with few side-effects.
He added that modern medicine will lose in the battle against chronic diseases where by nanomedicine we could deliver drug to the desired target.
In discussing traditional medicine he said that Herbal Species had single and multi-component reparations with mostly oral and dermal applications that underwent slow reactions and a broad spectrum of responses, while in nanoformulations there was better absorption.
Slow Reactions – Minimum Side Effects
The prof. added that Targeted Drug Delivery was worth exploring and elaborated on nanoformulations of traditional medicine, nanoformulations of individual components, nonoformulations of multi components and co-formulations of molecular and herbal drugs.
On formulations, he talked on: Nano Conversion for obtaining the active ingredients of extracts, nano conversion of whole herbs for their synergistic effects, nanoforms of whole dugs Loaded to structures through nanoparticles, Nanotubes, Nanoshells, Nanocage, Polymers, Dendrimers and combinations.
The professor gave an example of Curcamin, an extract of Tumeric root, injected to the ischemic parts of mice brain resulting in complete reversal of brain damage.
In his second example he talked on the combined uses of Curcumin and Tungsten.
For the treatment of cirrhosis that had resulted in the reversal of cirrhosis.
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