ProfessorDavid Brayden

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) has elected Professor David Brayden as a Fellow at its annual conference in San Diego on November 12th, 2017. "AAPS Fellow" is one of the highest honours given to members of the association and Prof Brayden is the first Irish scientist to be conferred with this honour. The AAPS elevates a few members to Fellow each year in recognition of their professional excellence in fields relevant to the Association’s mission: to advance the capacity of pharmaceutical scientists to develop products and therapies that improve global health. Each Fellow has demonstrated a sustained level of superior and distinguished professional achievement and contributions in fields related to this mission. Fellows are nominated by supporters, selected by a committee of their peers and elevated by the AAPS Executive Council. Professor Brayden is co-lead Principal Investigator of Science Foundation Ireland’s Centre for Medical Devices (CURAM) and Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine and the UCD Conway Institute. Professor Brayden has spent over 25 years in drug delivery research. He also worked for 10 years as a senior scientist at Elan Corporation before moving to UCD in 2001. His research focuses on how to deliver poorly permeable macromolecules across the intestinal epithelium in order to guide formulation of oral dosage forms. Large molecules, such as macromolecules, cannot easily pass through biological barriers such as epithelial tissues – tissues that line the surfaces and cavities of vessels and organs in the body. Professor Brayden’s work involves devising solutions to make the macromolecules in oral drug doses pass more easily across the gut barrier. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles of which 10 have been cited over 100 times as author or co-author. He is also a Fellow of the Controlled Release Society and was recently elected to the EU Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1986, AAPS is a professional, scientific society of approximately 20,000 members employed in academia, industry, government, and other research institutes worldwide

Member of the 2016 Annual Meeting Programme Committee

Service on the CRS Annual Meeting Programme Committee

Citation: Professor David Brayden has been a major contributor to many areas of CRS for 20 years as his career has developed via senior scientist positions at Elan Corporation through to drug delivery professorship in academiaHe has presented at numerous CRS annual meeting in all formats: posters, invited podium, Symposia, Pearls of Wisdom debates, and Young Scientist and education workshops. Much of his major research has been published in the Society's Journal of Controlled Release (JCR), including highly-cited papers on oral peptide delivery, permeation enhancers, bioassays, animal models and polymeric conjugates. He was awarded the PR Consulting Outstanding Veterinary paper at CRS 2004.He has contributed to CRS in many leadership and administration roles: co-founder and Chair of UK-Ireland award-winning CRS Chapter, Chair of the Veterinary and Webinar Committees and is current member of the Nominations Committee He was also a Veterinary Programme co-Chair for three successive annual meetings from 2004-2006 and was an elected member of the Board of Science Advisors from 2006-2009. In recent years, his own Ph.D. students and postdoctoral Fellows have also been well represented at annual meetings and in JCR research papers.

Oral delivery of peptides using enhancers

Career record.

Service on the Board of Science Advisors of the CRS from 2006-2009

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Award for Programme Co-Chair of the Veterinary Programme at the Interational Controlled Release Society meeting (Vienna, 2006)

Best paper in Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics judged from all papers published in the Journal in 2005.

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Award for Co-Chairing Veterinary Programme at the International Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting (Miami, 2005)

Outstanding veterinary controlled release paper of 2004.

Chair

Award for Co-Chairing the Veterinary Programme at the International Controlled Release Society (Glasgow, 2003)

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