Dr Lea Ann Dailey | Lecturer in Drug Delivery
King's College London

Lea Ann is a pharmacist by training and gained a PhD at the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, on the topic of ‘Polymeric nanoparticles for aerosol delivery to the lung’.  She worked as a post-doctoral fellow for Nektar Therapeutics (now Novartis) in San Carlos, CA, USA, before taking up a position as Lecturer at King’s College London in the UK.  Currently a Senior Lecturer at King’s, Lea Ann’s research interests focus on assessing the biocompatibility of nanomedicines and nanodiagnostics.  She works with a wide range of biomaterials, including polymeric, lipidic and protein-based nanosystems, to characterize the in vitro and in vivo behavior of nanomaterials designed for use as nanomedicines.  Knowledge gained through studying first nanomaterial biocompatibility and then biodistribution profiles is used to subsequently select the most promising nanoparticle platforms for drug encapsulation and development towards different therapeutic or diagnostic strategies.