The field of drug development and therapeutics can be overwhelmingly encyclopedic and vast. In this book, Dr. Kewal Jain and a team of experts select the most important, cutting-edge technologies used in drug delivery systems taking into account significant drugs, new technologies such as nanoparticles, and therapeutic applications. The chapters present step-by-step laboratory protocols following the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology(TM) series format, offering readily reproducible results vital for pharmaceutical physicians and scientists. Concise and systematic, this book is a powerful reference tool for the hundreds of companies developing drug delivery technologies all around the world.