Drug Delivery: Engineering Principles for Drug Therapy

by W. Mark Saltzman

Synthetic materials are a tremendous potential resource for treating human disease. For the rational design of many of these biomaterials it is necessary to have an understanding of polymer chemistry and polymer physics. Equally important to those two fields is a quantitative understanding of the principles that govern rates of drug transport, reaction, and disappearance in physiological and pathological situations. This book is a synthesis of these principles, providing a working foundation for those in the field of drug delivery. It covers advanced drug delivery and contemporary biomaterials.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

William Mark Saltzman is an author and research scientist at Yale University and was the founding chair of Yale’s Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2003. Saltzman worked on pioneering technologies in the fields of biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering.

Reviews

[Mandy ma]

this book commemorates a lot of firsts: The first time I saw practicality in what I went to school for. My first faculty crush. My first industry job. My first romp in the hay with biodegradable polymers. 372 pages of pure seduction. Welcome to the world of “drug trafficking”.