**Meet the editors**

Dr. Poonam Arora is presently working as an Assistant Professor at GHG Khalsa College of Pharmacy, Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She obtained her Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) degrees from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, and PhD (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) degree in 2011 from the same institute. She has

more than 10 years of teaching and research experience. Her major areas of research are cyclodextrin complexation studies of pharmaceutical drugs, polymorph/solvatomorph studies, and design and synthesis of cocrystals and eutectic mixtures. Her research work has been credited with 2 national patents and more than 30 research and review articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals. Besides this, she has one book and two book chapters to her credit.

Dr. Neelima Dhingra has been associated with the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh, for the past 23 years. She received her PhD (2007), master's (2000), and bachelor's (1998) degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and she then joined the same institute as an Assistant Professor (2007) in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. She is

an expert Medicinal Chemist and synthesizes new chemical entities after relating molecular biology and pharmacology of hormone-dependent cancers (prostate/breast/lung). She has published over thirty scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, one book, and one book chapter and holds two US and two European patents in new molecules as cytotoxic agents. She has been conferred with a DST Young Scientist Award and a UGC Basic Scientific Research Grant and eight national and one international awards in the field of cancer research. Dr. Neelima Dhingra is a lifetime member of various national scientific bodies like APTI, IPGA, PAS, PUPS, IABMS, and SPER; is an active reviewer and an editorial board member of various national/international journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Cyclodextrins: An Overview 1**

**Applications 45**

Chapter 1 **Cyclodextrins: Past and Present 3**

**Section 2 Applications of Cyclodextrins 67**

**Cyclodextrins 69**

**Type C Disease 95**

Aida Moreira da Silva

Julia Martin, Enrique Jacobo Díaz-Montaña and Agustín G. Asuero

Tânia F.G.G. Cova, Sandra M.A. Cruz, Artur J.M. Valente, Paulo E.

Bruno Filipe Figueiras Medronho, Sandra Gonçalves, Raquel Rodríguez-Solana, Artur J.M. Valente and Anabela Romano

Juan Eduardo Megías-Vericat, María José Company-Albir, Ana

Mandla B. Chabalala, Bonisiwe C. Seshabela, Stijn W.H. Van Hulle, Bhekie B. Mamba, Sabelo D. Mhlanga and Edward N. Nxumalo

Chapter 4 **Use of 2-Hydroxypropyl-Beta-Cyclodextrin for Niemann-Pick**

Chapter 6 **Cyclodextrin-Based Nanofibers and Membranes: Fabrication,**

Alejandra García-Robles and José Luis Poveda

Chapter 5 **Room at the Top as well as at the Bottom: Structure of Functional Food Inclusion Compounds 119**

**Properties and Applications 135**

Chapter 2 **Aggregation of Cyclodextrins: Fundamental Issues and**

Chapter 3 **Interactions between Bio-Based Compounds and**

Abreu, Jorge M.C. Marques and Alberto A.C.C. Pais
