Cancellation of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Oral Drug Delivery

Dear Colleagues,

Due to a limited number of high quality submissions, we have unfortunately had to cancel this e-conference. However, we still want to offer contributing authors the chance to present their work. As such, we invite you to submit a full paper to Pharmaceutics free of charge.

The Organizing Committee wants to thank you very much for your interest and support.

Kind regards,

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Welcome Message from the Chair of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Oral Drug Delivery

I take great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st International Electronic Conference on Oral Drug Delivery (ECODD-1). The conference is intended to provide lateral and inter disciplinary programme to cover recent developments in oral drug delivery with a focus on material properties, dosage form design and biopharmaceutics. It aspires to bring together people working on both basic, as well as applied/translational interface of pharmaceutical sciences, thereby providing a platform to develop discussions and collaborations. We hope ECODD-1 would bring debates on oral delivery and consequently generate new ideas of research.

This event aims to focus on studies and strategies that cover the following topics:

• Material Properties for Oral Drug Delivery:
  Solid state characterisation, particle surface evaluation, particle engineering,
  pharmaceutical excipient functionalisation
• Oral Drug Delivery:
  Solubility, targeted drug delivery, drug transport and absorption,
  paediatric drug delivery
• Biopharmaceutics:
  Drug-drug interactions, drug efflux, ADME, in vitro and in vivo correlation
• Antimicrobial Drug Resistance (AMR) and Pharmaceutics:
  Antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial drug development, opportunities for formulation scientists to combat AMR

The virtual conference would be held at: https://sciforum.net/conference/ECODD-2016, a platform developed by MDPI to organize electronic conferences and discussion groups. The participation is free of any charge. Accepted abstracts will be published in a meeting report. Full papers, if submitted to Pharmaceutics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pharmaceutics) for publication after the event, will be processed with priority and no processing fees.

We look forward to receiving your contributions in this unique event!

Prof. Dr. Afzal R. Mohammed
Chair of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Oral Drug Delivery
Associate Editor of Pharmaceutics
Professor in Pharmaceutics
School of Life and Health Sciences
Aston University
Birmingham
B4 7ET, UK

Prof. Dr. Afzal R. Mohammed is a Professor in Pharmaceutics with research expertise in paediatric medicines development which includes pharmaceutical excipient characterisation, process and technology innovation to develop orally disintegrating tablets. He completed his PhD in 2004 which was followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship and subsequently a Lectureship in 2007 at Aston University. He has over 14 years of experience in developing pharmaceutical processes and formulations and has recently developed a novel dry particle coating technology. To date he has supervised 11 PhD projects to completion and secured research funding from diverse sources including EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, INNOVATE UK and the Pharmaceutical Industry. He has delivered invited talks at several national and international conferences. He has over 80 publications which include research articles, review papers, book chapters, patent applications, research theses and over 90 conference abstracts and communications.

Sessions

Abstract can only be submitted online by registering on www.sciforum.net, and using the "Submit New Abstract" function once logged into system.

1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstracts online on the website by 31 October, 2016.
2. The Conference Committee will evaluate the abstracts and notify the authors of acceptance by 5 November, 2016.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to submit a PowerPoint presentation of his/her work (only in PDF format), until the submission deadline of 12 November, 2016.
4. The abstracts and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/ECODD-2016 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 15–29 November, 2016.
5. The Open Access journal Pharmaceutics will publish a meeting report covering all accepted abstracts of the conference.Authors of the most outstanding presentations, as selected by the Scientific Committee, will be invited to publish their work as a research article, free of charge.
6. Template of presentation slide is available here.
7. Abstracts/Slides/Posters should be submitted in English.
8. Please state the full names, titles, affiliations and email addresses of all authors.
9. Submission via email will not be accepted.

Authors wishing to publish their full papers after the event are asked to abide to the following rules:

• Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.
• Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
• Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.
• Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
• Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
• Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).
• If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken. Please refer to our policy regarding publication of publishing addenda and corrections.
• Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.