Biography:
David Brayden is Associate Professor of Drug Delivery at the School of Veterinary Medicine and a Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute in UCD. Following a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge, UK (1989), and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University, CA (1991), he set up Elan Corporation's pharmacology laboratory in Dublin (1991). At Elan Biotechnology Research, he became a senior scientist and project manager of several of Elan's Joint-Venture drug delivery research collaborations with US biotech companies. In 2001, he joined UCD as a lecturer in veterinary pharmacology and was appointed Senior Lecturer (2005) and Associate Professor (2006). He completed a successful Principle Investigator Grant from SFI on the topic of oral delivery of novel mucoadhesive polymeric peptide conjugates (2005-2009). Professor Brayden is the Director of an SFI Research Cluster grant (The Irish Drug Delivery Research Network), that was awarded 7.2 million euro by SFI in December, 2007. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 research publications and patents. Professor Brayden serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Drug Discovery Today, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews and the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. In 2010 he became an Associate Editor of the new international journal, Therapeutic Delivery. He was Chairman of the UK-Ireland Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (2003-2006), Co-Chair of the Veterinary Programmes at the CRS international conferences (2003-2006) and served on the CRS Board of Scientific Advisors (2006-2009). His research team was awarded the Best Research Paper Prize of the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2005). At UCD, he was Chairman of the Animal Research Ethics Committee (2005-2007) and is a member of the UCD Research Ethics Committee (2006-) as well as the UCD Promotions and Tenure Committee (elected, 2010). He was Director of Research for the School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine from 2007-2008. On the teaching side, he coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate modules on Biological Fluids and Drug Development and contributes to a module on Cell Communication. He contributes Professional Ethics material to the Conway Institute Core Research Skills and Advanced Research Skills modules and also coordinates a 4th level module on Integrated Pharmacology for UCD and Molecular Medicine Ireland. Professor Brayden works as an independent consultant for drug delivery companies and has provided expert pharmacology opinion in three veterinary practice legal cases. His major research interests are in oral peptide delivery and novel formulations of calcitonin and his team comprises 4 PhD students, 2 postdocs and a technician.
