About the Book:

FASTtrack provides the ultimate lecture notes and is a must-have for all pharmacy undergraduate students wanting to study and test themselves for forthcoming exams.

Pharmaceutics: Drug Delivery and Targeting focuses on what pharmacy students really need to know in order to pass exams concise, bulleted information, key points, tips and an all-important self-assessment section which includes MCQs.

This FASTtrack book systematically reviews important concepts and facts for the delivery and targeting of drugs. Relevant examples of delivery systems are given throughout the book with a focus on drug delivery systems that have actually reached clinical reality. Information is presented concisely with self assessment questions / answers and mindmaps to aid learning.

The text has been updated for the new edition based on student feedback.

Contents: 

1. Controlling Drug Delivery

2. Immediate-Release Drug Delivery Systems I: Increasing the solubility and dissolution rate of drugs

3. Immediate-Release Drug Delivery Systems II: Increasing the permeability and absorption of drugs

4. Delayed-Release Drug Delivery Systems

5. Sustained-Release Drug Delivery Systems

6. Controlled-Release Dosage Forms

7. Site-Directed Drug Targeting

8. Carriers for Drug Targeting

About the Authors:

Professor Yvonne Perrie is the Chair in Drug Delivery within Aston Pharmacy School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. She has a BSc [first-class honours) in Pharmacy (1994) from Strathclyde University, Scotland and registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1995.

In 1998 Yvonne received her PhD from the University of London, UK where she investigated the use of liposomes for gene delivery under the supervision of professor Gregory Gregoriadis. After working for a newly established drug delivery company, Lipoxen, Yvonne joined Aston University as a lecturer in 2000 and since 2007 holds the Chair in Drug Delivery.

Yvonne is currently the Head of Pharmacy within Aston University and was previously awarded the Aston University Teaching Excellence Award.

Yvonne's research is focused on the development of particulate carrier systems to facilitate the delivery of drugs and vaccines and aims to provide practical solutions to current healthcare problems. Yvonne is also Editor in Chief of the Journal of Liposome Research.

Professor Thomas Rades is the Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, New Zealand. He has a BSc in Pharmacy from the University of Hamburg, Germany and is a registered pharmacist.

In 1994 Thomas received a PhD from the University of Braunschweig, Germany for his work on thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline drugs. After working as a research scientist in Preclinical Development and Formulation at F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, Switzerland, he became senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical sciences at otago in 1999 and since 2003 holds the chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

For his undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in pharmaceutics he was awarded the University of Otago Teaching Excellence Award and the New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence.