-The Novel Drug Delivery Research Center was established in 2012. The mission of this center is to promote interest in research among students and support researchers at all levels to conduct fundamental and applied research in different branches of drug delivery systems. It is equipped with high-tech equipment currently utilized in pharmaceutical industries.

-Drug-delivery systems are tested in cell-based functional assays, animal disease models, or humans using pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic assessments and clinical outcomes. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of research, most projects are in collaboration with colleagues of relevant expertise.

Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics represent interdisciplinary specialties within the pharmaceutical sciences and encompass a range of scientific endeavors, including:

• The design, engineering, fabrication, and evaluation of dosage forms and delivery strategies for conventional and biotechnology-based therapeutic agents.
• Elucidation of barriers to systemic and target-specific drug delivery.
• Determination of the ability of pharmacologic agents to reach the relevant site of biologic effect and their time course of biologic activity.

These areas represent critical steps in the development of new therapeutic agents, the evaluation of new and existing agents in a variety of settings (e.g., potential interactions with other agents or alterations secondary to physiologic changes associated with disease processes), and the optimal clinical use of pharmacologic agents.