Dr. Anthony Hickey is Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a fellow of the Institute of Biology, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published several edited and authored volumes in the fields of pharmaceutical aerosols, process engineering and particulate science. Dr. Hugh Smyth is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is a recipient of the Young Investigator in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology Award of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and has edited a volume on pulmonary drug delivery. Drs. Hickey and Smyth share a research interest in the delivery of drugs to the lungs for the treatment and prevention of a number of diseases.

• The nature of complexity and relevance to the pharmaceutical sciences.- Phenomena in Physical and Surface Chemistry.- Solid State Pharmaceuticals: Solving Complex Problems in Preformulation and Formulation.- Considerations in monitoring and controlling pharmaceutical manufacturing.- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.- Impact of complexity on population Biology.- Conclusion.