Part 1. Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research -- Chapter 1. Innovation in stabilization of biopharmaceuticals -- Chapter 2. Concepts in pharmacogenomics: tools and applications -- Chapter 3. Pharmacogenetics-a new approach for the selection of the right drug -- Chapter 4. Meeting the unmet challenges of pharmaceutical research using artificial intelligence -- Chapter 5. Pharmaceutical innovation and research in ayurved -- Chapter 6. Ayurveda intervention in perimenopausal syndrome -- Part 2. Drug Discovery and Development -- Chapter 7. Innovative strategies in drug discovery and pharmacoinformatics -- Chapter 8. Advances in peptide synthesis -- Chapter 9. Peptidomimetics in Medicinal Chemistry: The Art of Transforming Peptides to Drugs -- Chapter 10. Diverse Pharmacological Activities of 4-aminoquinoline and its Derivatives -- Chapter 11. Thiourea catalysts for synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients -- Chapter 12. The Chemistry and Pharmacology of Mandarin Orange -- Chapter 13. Recent progress in the pharmacology of phytoestrogens: emerging neuromodulators for treating anxiety and depression -- Chapter 14. Next-generation cell-based therapies to combat metastaticbrain tumor -- Chapter 15. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Fundamentals and Role(s) in Drug Discovery and Development -- Chapter 16. An update on pharmacokinetic models -- Chapter 17. Pharmacodynamics: Basics and Applications in Drug Research -- Part 3. Drug Delivery and Nanotechnology -- Chapter 18. Technological innovations in pharmaceutical drug nanocrystals -- Chapter 19. Fixed Dose Combinations: Innovations and Research -- Chapter 20. Significance of Intranasal Drug Delivery Systems: Recent Trends and Clinical Investigations in Brain Disorders -- Chapter 21. Current challenges and nanotechnology-based pharmaceutical approaches for the treatment and control of visceral leishmaniasis -- Chapter 22. Polymeric Nanoparticles-based Drug Delivery Systems for Anticancer Therapy.Chapter 23. Carbon nanotubes: a review of toxicity and applicability in biomedical applications -- Chapter 24. Recent trends in topical herbal nanotherapeutics for psoriasis -- Part 4. Pharmaceutical Microbiology -- Chapter 25. Antibiotics: past, present, future, and clinical pipeline -- Chapter 26. Innovative strategies to tackle antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 27. Molecular and mechanistic insights of yeast flocculation -- Chapter 28. Management of hepatitis virus C: current and future treatments -- Chapter 29. Tuberculosis: experimental models, innovations and challenges -- Chapter 30. Targeting outer membrane to tackle multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens -- Chapter 31. Diphtheria-A Paradigmatic Vaccine Preventable Toxigenic Disease with Changing Epidemiology -- Chapter 32. Emerging and re-emerging infections: an overview.