David Brayden is Full Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD) and he is also a Senior Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute. Prof. Brayden is a pharmacologist and spent 10 years as a senior scientist at Elan Pharmaceuticals (1991-2001). He is the author or co-author of more than 200 research publications and patents mainly in the area of oral drug delivery. He is currently a co-lead Principal Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Medical Devices (CURAM II). Prof. Brayden was elected as both a Fellow of the Controlled Release Society (2012), and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (2017).