Drug Delivery: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition

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Anya M. Hillery earned her BSc (Pharmacy) from Trinity College Dublin Ireland in 1990 and her PhD in pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy Brunswick Square University College London UK. She continued her post-doctoral studies at the Square then in 1995 took up a lectureship position in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Department of Pharmacy University of Brighton UK. This was followed by a move in 1999 to Saint Louis University - Madrid Campus Spain where she currently lectures in the division of Health Sciences. She has previously served as Director of the Department of Science & Engineering and Vice Dean of SLU-Madrid. Kinam Park earned his PhD in pharmaceutics from the University of Wisconsin in 1983. After postdoctoral training in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the same university he joined the faculty of the College of Pharmacy Purdue University in 1986 and 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 microparticle delivery systems. 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.