Theranostics and Image Guided Drug Delivery (eBook)

Dr Thanou is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London and an Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London. She finished her PhD in LACDR (Leiden/Amsterdam Centre for Drug Research) in 2000 and after a short period as project manager in Kytogenics Pharmaceuticals Inc., she took her first academic appointment at Cardiff University as Lecturer in Polymer Therapeutics. She continued her career as Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellow at Imperial College, at the Department of Chemistry and the Genetic Therapies Centre.  She is a drug delivery scientist and is currently focusing on the design and development of nanoparticles for Image Guided Drug Delivery. She has published a variety of academic articles on these topics and she is the main or co-inventor of a number of patents.

Image Guided Focused Ultrasound as a New Method of Targeted Drug Delivery; Image-guided Drug Delivery Systems Based on NIR-absorbing Nanocarriers for Photothermalchemotherapy of Cancer; Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Multi-modal Imaging; Photodynamic Therapy; Radiolabelling Liposomal Nanomedicines for PET Imaging; Liposomes for Hyperthermia Triggered Drug Release; Targeted Delivery with Ultrasound Activated Nano-encapsulated Drugs; Theranostics in the Gut; Microwave Imaging and the Potential of Contrast Enhancing Agents for Theranostics Use