One way to make medicines better (and to make better medicines) is by ensuring they get where they need to go more quickly or more accurately.

Sometimes it’s a question of efficiency. There might be a way to deliver a drug that makes it take effect more quickly, or be administered less frequently, or in lower doses.

Sometimes it's a matter of designing drugs that have fewer side effects because they're only acting on the areas where they have a therapeutic effect and not other areas.

It's all about developing more targeted medications. Here are a few of the ways we're doing that. If you're a pharmaceutical science student, you might get the chance to be involved in some of this research.