Professor Thanou is based in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at King’s College London and specialises in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. She finished her PhD in LACDR (Leiden/Amsterdam Centre for Drug Research) in the area of therapeutic peptides for cancer. In 2000 she received the AAPS award for excellence in Graduate Research.
Her research can be summarised on engineering image guided drug activation methods, using nanoparticles and medical devices. She collaborates with a number of companies (biotech, medical devices). She is the industry trustee of the British Society for Nanomedicine. She is the main or co-inventor of 10 patents and editor of a RSC book on Theranostics: Image Guided Drug Delivery.
