Glucocorticoid excess, particularly in adipose tissue, drives increased cardiovascular disease risk, including visceral obesity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. Thus, efforts to reduce glucocorticoid action in adipose tissue as a treatment for cardiometabolic disease have both scientific and clinical merit. Our research is focused on the delivery mechanism through which glucocorticoids are ‘targeted’ to metabolic tissues, with the aims of not only advancing our understanding of glucocorticoid action in cardiometabolic disease, but identifying novel pathways to limit adverse glucocorticoid exposure.