AUS-CRS 2011: 5th Annual Meeting of the Australian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society

AUS-CRS 2011, the 5th Annual Meeting of the Australian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society was held as a satellite meeting to the Australian Peptide Conference at Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia in October 2011. The conference provides a forum for showcasing a range of research towards improving drug delivery across Australia and New Zealand, with international visitors from beyond also participating, this year from the UK and Sweden. This year's meeting had an emphasis on peptide and protein delivery because of its association with the Australian Peptide Conference, although invited and contributed talks from a range of other fields of delivery research were also presented with excellent talks on lipid-based drug delivery, pulmonary delivery, anticancer drug delivery and drug development from a range of academic and industry speakers.