Introduction 1. Gellan gum: Source, production, and gelation mechanism 2. Impact of environmental conditions on the preparation and functionality of gellan gum 3. Sol-gel behaviour of gellan gum and its applications in biomedical industry 4. Biomedical properties of gellan gum Biomedical materials 5. Gellan gum-based biomedical gels 6. Gellan gum-based hydrogels as useful biomedical material 7. Gellan gum-based biocomposites 8.

Gellan gum-based nanocomposite hydrogel 9. Gellan gum-based nanosystems for biomedical applications 10. Cross-linked gellan gum for biomedical applications 11. Grafted-gellan gum for biomedical applications Biomedical applications 12. Tissue engineering applications of gellan gum 13. Gellan gum-based wound dressings 14. Cell encapsulation and delivery using gellan gum 15. Protein and peptide delivery using gellan gum 16.

Uses of gellan gum for nutrient delivery 17. Uses of gellan gum for growth factor delivery Pharmaceutical excipients 18. Uses of gellan gum in pharmaceutical tablets 19. Gellan gum-based microparticles and beads for sustained drug delivery 20. Nanoformulations of gellan gum for improved drug delivery 21. Gellan gum-based in situ gels for drug delivery 22. Gellan gum-based nasal formulations 23. Gellan gum-based ocular formulations 24.

Gellan gum-based dermatological formulations 25. Gellan gum-based gastroretentive systems 26. Ionically-gelled gellan gum-based systems for controlled therapeutic release 27. Gellan gum-based interpenetrating polymer networks for sustained release drug delivery 28. Gellan gum-based polyelectrolyte complexes for sustained release drug delivery Other Topics 29. Future perspectives and challenges of plant polysaccharides as pharmaceutical excipients.