The pharmaceutical area can present some opportunities for mechanical engineers to develop a vast type of dosage forms particularly novel forms like nanoparticles. The classical education of mechanics needs some alterations to prepare appropriate education courses in this regard. In order to present some views about this issue, we collect some information around the importance of mechanical eng...

Stephen Perrett is currently the Corporate Technology Director at Eurand. He is responsible for Merger and Acquisition activities and for the licensing in of new technologies for the Eurand Group. Through internal development and acquisition Eurand now controls one of the broadest ranges of drug delivery technologies in the industry. Dr Perrett has 20 years of experience in the drug delivery in...

Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles (NPs), the most traditional magnetic nanoparticles, have received a great deal of attention in the biomedical field, especially for targeted drug/gene delivery systems, due to their outstanding magnetism, biocompatibility, lower toxicity, biodegradability, and other features. Naked Fe₃O₄ NPs are easy to aggregate and oxidize, and thus are often made with various coatings to ...