1. N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide copolymer conjugates / Ruth Duncan -- 2. Functional PEG for drug delivery / Motoi Oishim Yukio Nagasaki, and Kuzunori Kataoka -- 3. pH-sensitive polymers for drug delivery / Kun Na and You Han Bae -- 4. Hydrogels for oral administration / Seong Hoon Jeong, Yourong Fu, and Kinam Park -- 5. Hydrogels for the controlled release of proteins / Wim E. Hennink ... [et al.] -- 6. Thermosensitive biodegradable hydrogels for the delivery of therapeutic agents / Young Min Kwon and Sung Wan Kim -- 7. Hydrogels : stimuli-sensitive hydrogels / Akihiko Kikuchi and Teruo Okano -- 8. Treatment of malignant brain tumors with controlled-release local-delivery polymers / Alex A. Khalessi ... [et al.] -- 9. Improving the stability of PLGA-encapsulated proteins / Steven P. Schwendeman and Jichao Kang -- 10. Recombinant polymers for drug delivery / Zaki Megeed and Hamidreza Ghandehari -- 11. Polymeric nanoparticle delivery of cancer vaccines / John Samuel and Glen S. Kwon -- 12. Polymer assemblies : intelligent block copolymer micelles for the programmed delivery of drugs and genes / Younsoo Bae and Kazunori Kataoka -- 13. Polymeric micelles for the targeting of hydrophobic drugs / Masayuki Yokoyama -- 14. Pluronicʼ block copolymers for drug and gene delivery / Alexander V. Kabanov and Jian Zhu -- 15. Graft copolymers for therapeutic gene delivery / Anurag Maheshwari, James W. Yockman, and Sung Wan Kim.