Andreas G. Tzakos is Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He is the head of a Chemical Biology Lab as also of the Bioanalytical Center & Analytical Center in Ioannina that operate under the ISO:17025 accreditation. Andreas conducted his postdoctoral research as an EMBO fellow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK) and CNRS, France and received many prestigious grants and awards including Marie Curie, EMBO, FEBS, NATO, Leonidas Zervas, and his work on the discovery of potent bioactive compounds has been awarded by the Academy of Athens. His main research interest includes the design and development of cancer diagnostics, theranostics, tumor homing and tumor responsive drug delivery vehicles. He has also developed many different multimodal bioimaging agents and bioactive compounds for different therapeutic areas (i.e. cancer, diabetes and atherothrombosis). He has authored more than 150 international publications in the field, one academic book, edited three books, participated in the development of 3 software, he is in the editorial board of several International Journals and has five patents.