Drug Delivery: Principles and Applications

An indispensable tool for those working at the front lines of new drug development 

The development of effective delivery systems is crucial to taking a drug from the discovery and development stages to successful clinical use. The advances of recent years in the pharmaceutical sciences, including from molecular biology and biotechnology, make the challenges of drug delivery higher and the need to train pharmaceutical scientists and students greater.

Continuing the legacy of its successful predecessor, the second edition of Drug Delivery gets readers quickly up to speed on both the principles and latest applications in the increasingly important field of drug delivery.

Contributions from leading international experts allows Drug Delivery to cover the entire field in a systematic yet concise way. It begins with an in–depth review of key fundamentals that include developability factors, physiochemical and biological barriers, drug delivery pathways, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and regulations and intellectual property. The remainder of the book systematically examines a host of specific subjects, including:

Routes of drug administration
Approaches to improve delivery
Targeted drug delivery systems
Delivery of macromolecular drugs

Binghe Wang, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Georgia State University as well as Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Drug Discovery. He is Editor–in–Chief of the journal Medicinal Research Reviews, Series Editor for the Wiley Series in Drug Discovery and Development, and editor of 4 books.

Longqin Hu, PhD, is a Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Medicinal Chemistry at Rutgers University. His research has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, Department of Defense Medical Research Programs, the State of New Jersey Commission of Cancer Research, and Pardee Foundation.

Teruna Siahaan, PhD, is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas. In addition to co–editing the first edition of Drug Delivery, he has written almost 200 journal papers and book chapters.