Dr. Vandana B. Patravale is currently a Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. She has 30 years of teaching and research experience. Prof. Patravale has over 200 refereed publications, 11 granted patents, 24 patents in the pipeline, and 2 trademark registries, and has published 2 books and 25 book chapters. She is an international advisory committee member of AAPS and Vice President of the CRS Indian chapter. She has acted as an editorial board member or guest editor for numerous journals, and has active collaborations with researchers and industries within the country and abroad. Prof. Patravale has successfully transferred many technologies to industry, the most recent being drug-eluting stents which are currently marketed in more than 60 countries.Prajakta Dandekar is the first female Indian scientist to be award the European Respiratory Society – Marie Curie Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship and is currently a guest scientist at the Department of Drug Delivery, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Germany. Her research interests include the design of polymeric nanoparticles of novel polymers for application in siRNA delivery and gene therapy.Ratnesh Jain has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship by the AvH Foundation and is currently a guest scientist at the Department of Drug Delivery, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Germany. His research interests include design of nanoparticles of commercial cationic polymers for application in siRNA delivery and gene therapy.