On April 8-10, 2013, OMICS at Chicago/Northbrook USA organized  3^rd International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmaceutics & Novel Drug Delivery Systems. This conference was OMICS endeavor to strengthen the future of the Pharmacy profession together with pharmacists, researchers, health care professionals, university professors, industrialists, pharmaceutical associations, editorial board members of OMICS journals, and students.

The keynote speakers for the conference were: Panayiotis P. Constantinides, Biopharmaceutical & Drug Delivery Consulting, USA, Wei-Chiang Shen, University of Southern California, USA, Kevin J. Filipski, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, USA, Giancarlo Morelli, University of Naples, Italy, and David J. Brayden, University College Dublin, Ireland.

The keynote sessions, invited lectures by honorable guests, and all the other sessions highlighted the current challenges, issues, opportunities, innovations and ideas, in pharmaceutical research, that was reflected by the theme of the conference “Novel Advances in Pharmaceutical R&D."  The theme touched upon various topics like Recent Technologies in Novel Drug Delivery Systems, Routes of Drug Administration, Drug Delivery Targeting, Biopharmaceuticals, Current Issues of Pharmaceutics in Global Market, Nanotech for Drug Delivery, Personalized Medicine, Prodrugs and Targeted Drug Delivery, Novel Advances in Drug Delivery to Brain, Drug Delivery Systems and Drug Formulations for Cancer, Pharmacokinetic Considerations of Drug Delivery, and Management of QA/QC in Pharmaceutical Industry. This gave a rewarding learning environment to all the attendees.

OMICS “Pharmaceutica” is known for uplifting the future of pharmacy by encouraging students and fellow researchers to present their work through poster presentations. Students participated with great zeal and the best posters were awarded for their efforts and outstanding contribution to the pharmacy research. The best poster awardees were: Srinath Muppalaneni, Mohsen. A. Bayomi, Povilas Norvaisas, and Padmakanthan Santha Raghu.

OMICS group wishes to acknowledge all the organizing committee members, chair and co-chair, editorial board members of OMICS group journals, speakers, students, sponsors, exhibitors and media partners in making this event a great success. 

Thank you everyone for the enormous exquisite response. This inspires us to continue organizing events and conferences for accelerating the Pharmaceutical research. OMICS therefore, is glad to announce  "4^th International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmaceutics & Novel Drug Delivery Systems" which will be held during March 2014 in San Antonio, USA.