David Brayden is Full Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine and a Principal Investigator at the Conway Institute at UCD. He is also Adjunct Professor at NUI Galway. Following a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University, he set up Elan Corporation's pharmacology laboratory in Dublin in 1991. At Elan, he became a senior scientist and project manager of several of Elan's Joint-Venture drug delivery research collaborations with US biotech companies. In 2001, he joined UCD as lecturer in veterinary pharmacology and was appointed to Associate Professor in 2006 and to Professo...