Introduction

New therapies for the treatment of diseases are in continual demand for the health care of citizens in the United States and throughout the world. However, the development of new therapies is often slowed by the inability to deliver the active agent to the site of the disease in a controlled manner without negatively affecting otherwise healthy tissues. Hence, the delivery system is an equal partner with the active agent in successful therapy. There are few, if any, graduate programs in the USA that take an interdisciplinary approach to educate graduate students in controlled delivery of therapeutic agents. Yet there is a great demand for scientists trained in these areas, especially in the pharmaceutical industry in Minnesota and the nation. To become a leader in this emerging field, we have assembled a unique interdisciplinary team of educators and scientists from the College of Pharmacy, the Medical School and the Institute of Technology to develop graduate education in the delivery of several groups of therapeutic agents of current and future importance.

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