Dr. Anya M. Hillery received her BSc in pharmacy from the School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 1990 (awarded the Trinity College Gold Medal of Outstanding Achievement). She was awarded a scholarship by Syntex Research to carry out her PhD in pharmaceutics under the supervision of Professor Sandy Florence at the School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square, University College London, United Kingdom. She continued with postdoctoral research studies at the Square upon being awarded a Maplethorpe Research Fellowship. Anya took up a lectureship position in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Brighton, United Kingdom, in 1995, and became a senior lecturer in 1997. This was followed by a move in 1999 to Saint Louis University Madrid Campus, Spain, starting as a lecturer in health sciences, subsequently becoming Director of the Department of Science and Engineering, and then Vice Dean of the university in 2001. After some years at home to raise her young family, she has recently returned to full-time academia at SLU Madrid.
Professor Kinam Park received his PhD in pharmaceutics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin in 1983. After his postdoctoral training in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the same university, he joined the faculty of the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette in 1986. He was promoted to full professor of pharmaceutics in 1994. Since 1998, he has held a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and became Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 2006. His research focuses on oral delivery, drug–device combination products, and long-term microparticle formulations. He is the founder of Akina, Inc. specializing in polymers for drug delivery. He is currently the editor in chief of the Journal of Controlled Release.