African Journal of Chemistry

African Journal of Chemistry ISSN 4391-3199 Vol. 5 (9), pp. 347-351, September, 2018. © International Scholars Journals

Review

Nanotechnology importance in the pharmaceutical industry

Ramesh Reddy Putheti^1*, R N Okigbo², Madhusoodhan Sai advanapu³ and Sangeeta Chavanpatil⁴

¹Member in American Chemical Society, Research Scientist, Actavis Research and development, 236-203, Saint David

Court, Maryland, USA, 21030.

²Department of Botany, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, P. M. B 5025, Anambra State, Nigeria.

³Vel’s College of Science, University of Madras, India.

⁴Department of Pharmacy, Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai, India

Accepted 02 May, 2018

Abstract

During the last decades, pharmaceutical technology has taken the advantage of the advent of nanotechnology and, now days, new pharmaceutical dosage forms are under development to deliver many physicochemically different drug molecules. The present study is to investigate the role and their importance of nanotechnology in the pharmaceutical development.

Key words: Nanotechnology, drug delivery, nanoparticles, cancer