| Ch. 1 |  | Application of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in the design of controlled delivery systems by James A. Uchizono |  | 1 | 
| Ch. 2 |  | Physiological and biochemical barriers to drug delivery by Amit Kokate and Venugopal P. Marasanapalle and Bhaskara R. Jasti and Xiaoling Li |  | 41 | 
| Ch. 3 |  | Prodrugs as drug delivery systems by Anant Shanbhag and Noymi Yam and Bhaskara Jasti |  | 75 | 
| Ch. 4 |  | Diffusion-controlled drug delivery systems by Puchun Liu and Tzuchi "Rob" Ju and Yihong Qiu |  | 107 | 
| Ch. 5 |  | Dissolution controlled drug delivery systems by Zeren Wang and Rama A. Shmeis |  | 139 | 
| Ch. 6 |  | Gastric retentive dosage forms by Amir H. Shojaei and Bret Berner |  | 173 | 
| Ch. 7 |  | Osmotic controlled drug delivery systems by Sastry Srikond and Phanidhar Kotamraj and Brian Barclay |  | 203 | 
| Ch. 8 |  | Device controlled delivery of powders by Rudi Mueller-Waiz |  | 231 | 
| Ch. 9 |  | Biodegradable polymeric delivery systems by Harish Ravivarapu and Ravichandran Mahalingam and Bhaskara R. Jasti |  | 271 | 
| Ch. 10 |  | Carrier- and vector-mediated delivery systems for biological macromolecules by Jae Hyung Park and Jin-Seok Kim and Ick Chan Kwon |  | 305 | 
| Ch. 11 |  | Physical targeting approaches to drug delivery by Xin Guo |  | 339 | 
| Ch. 12 |  | Ligand-based targeting approaches to drug delivery by Andrea Wamsley |  | 375 | 
| Ch. 13 |  | Programmable drug delivery systems by Shiladitya Bhattacharya and Appala Raju Sagi and Manjusha Gutta and Rajasekhar Chiruvella and Ramesh R. Boinpally |  | 405 |