Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Editors

Contributors

Chapter 1    Historical Introduction to the Field of Controlled Drug Delivery

Anya M. Hillery and Allan S. Hoffman

SECTION I

Fundamental Issues

Chapter 2    Principles of Controlled Release

Yvonne Perrie, Thomas Rades, and Kirsten Graeser

Chapter 3    Improving the Water Solubility of Poorly Soluble Drugs

Kohsaku Kawakami and Anya M. Hillery

Chapter 4    Overview of Epithelial Barriers

Floriane Laurent, Anya M. Hillery, and Randall Mrsny

SECTION II

Parenteral Routes for Drug Delivery and Targeting

Chapter 5    Nanotechnologies for Drug Delivery and Targeting: Opportunities and Obstacles

Alexander T. Florence and Daan J.A. Crommelin

Chapter 6    Long-Acting Injections and Implants

Jeremy C. Wright and James Matriano

SECTION III

Nonparenteral Routes for Drug Delivery and Targeting

Chapter 7    Oral Drug Delivery

Anya M. Hillery and David J. Brayden

Chapter 8    Buccal and Sublingual Drug Delivery

Marc B. Brown and Viralkumar F. Patel

Chapter 9    Transdermal Drug Delivery

Simon R. Corrie and Mark A.F. Kendall

Chapter 10  Nasal Drug Delivery

Per Gisle Djupesland and Anya M. Hillery

Chapter 11  Pulmonary Drug Delivery

Heidi M. Mansour, Paul B. Myrdal, Usir Younis, Priya Muralidharan, Anya M. Hillery, and Don Hayes, Jr.

Chapter 12  Drug Delivery to the Female Reproductive Tract

Patrick F. Kiser, Justin T. Clark, and Jonathan T. Su

Chapter 13  Ophthalmic Drug Delivery

Clive G. Wilson, Mariam Badawi, Anya M. Hillery, Shyamanga Borooah, Roly Megaw, and Baljean Dhillon

SECTION IV

Emerging Technologies

Chapter 14  Hydrogels

Ronald A. Siegel and Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo

Chapter 15  Drug Delivery to the Central Nervous System

Anya M. Hillery

Chapter 16  Gene Delivery Systems

Kwang Suk Lim and Sung Wan Kim

Chapter 17  Vaccine Delivery

Terry L. Bowersock and Suman M. Mahan

Chapter 18  Theranostic Nanoagents

Anthony S. Malamas and Zheng-Rong Lu

Chapter 19  Nanofabrication Techniques and Their Applications in Drug Delivery

Erica Schlesinger, Cade Fox, and Tejal Desai

SECTION V

Toward Commercialization

Chapter 20  Rational Drug Discovery, Design, and Development

Haizhen A. Zhong, Osman F. Güner, and J. Phillip Bowen

Chapter 21  Commercial and Regulatory Development Considerations for Nanomedicines

Donna Cabral-Lilly and Lawrence D. Mayer

Chapter 22  Marketing Perspectives for Drug Delivery

Louise Rosenmayr-Templeton

Chapter 23  Bringing Research to Clinical Application: Lessons from ThermoDox®: A Thermal-Sensitive Liposome for Treatment of Cancer

David Needham

Chapter 24  Conclusions

Anya M. Hillery and Kinam Park

Index