David Brayden is the Full Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), and is also a Senior Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute. David is a pharmacologist and spent 10 years as a senior scientist at Elan Pharmaceuticals (1991-2001). He is the author or co-author of more than 300 research publications and patents mainly in the areas of oral drug delivery, epithelial drug transport, and nanomedicine formulations. He is currently a co-lead Principal Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Medical Devices (CURAM, 2021-) and is the Coordinator of the EU Horizon Consortium, BUCCAL-PEP (2023-2026). David was elected a Fellow of the Controlled Release Society (2012) and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (2017). He was appointed by the Minister of Health as a member of the National Research Ethics Committee (Clinical Trials) in 2021.  He is the Chief Editor of Frontiers in Drug Delivery (2021-).