1. Polymeric nanoparticle mediated targeted drug delivery to cancer cells / Gul-e-Saba and Mohd Azmuddin Abdullah (Malaysia) -- 2. Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics in personalized medicine : role of gene polymorphism in drug response / Rownock Afruza, Fumiaki Suzuki, and A.H.M. Nurun Nabi (Bangladesh, Japan) -- 3. Natural history and molecular biology of Hepatitis B virus / Essam Mohammed Janahi (Kingdom of Bahrain) -- 4. Reconfigurable parallel platforms for dependable personalized health monitoring / Olufemi Adeluyi and Jeong A. Lee (Republic of South Korea) -- 5. High throughput evaluation of gene expression from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues / Paraskevi A. Farazi (Cyprus) -- 6. Microbial detoxifying enzymes involved in biodegradation of organic chemopollutants / Pradnya Pralhad Kanekar and Seema Shreepad Sarnaik (India) -- 7. An insight into horizontal gene transfer triggering widespread antimicrobial resistance in bacteria / Zakir Hossain (Bangladesh) -- 8. Production and biotechnological applications of recombinant proteins by methylotrophic yeast : past, present and future perspectives / Marcos Lopez-Perez and Rina Maria Gonzalez-Cervantes (Mexico) -- 9. Mechanism of tolerance and engineering of yeast strain resistant to novel fermentation inhibitors of bioethanol production / Lahiru Niroshan Jayakody, Nobuyuki Hayashi, and Hiroshi Kitagaki (Japan) -- 10. Biotechnological potential of alkaliphilic microorganisms / Pradnya Pralhad Kanekar, Amaraja Abhay Joshi, Snehal Omkar Kulkarni, Suchitra Baburao Borgave, Seema Shreepad Sarnaik, Smita Shrikant Nilegaonkar, Anita Satish Kelkar, and Rebecca Sandeep Thombre (India) -- 11. Design and tailoring of polyhydroxyalkanoate-based biomaterials containing 4-hydroxybutyrate monomer / Sevakumaran Vigneswari, Kesaven Bhubalan, and Abdullah Al-Ashraf Amirul (Malaysia) -- 12. Algal biotechnology for bioenergy, environmental remediation and high-value biochemicals / Mohd Azmuddin Abdullah, Syed Muhammad Usman Shah, Ashfaq Ahmad, and Hamdy El-Sayed (Malaysia) -- 13. Molecular docking : a practical approach for protein interaction analysis / Neil Andrew D. Bascos (Philippines) -- 14. Application of biotechnology and bioinformatics in drug designing and discovery / A.K.M. Mahbub Hasan, Sajib Chakrobarty, Rajib Chakrovorty, and A.H.M. Nurun Nabi (Australia, Bangladesh) -- 15. Systems biotechnology for industrial microorganisms / Ana M. Martins (United Arab Emirates) -- 16. Bioinformatics and biotechnology in human genetic research : a current scenario / Sathiya Maran, Thirumulu Ponnuraj Kannan, and Teguh Haryo Sasongko (Malaysia).