Véronique Préat is full professor of pharmaceutics at the Faculty of pharmacy and head of the laboratory of Advanced drug delivery and biomaterials at the Louvain Drug research institute of the University of Louvain. She received a master and PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from this university. Her research area is focused on advanced delivery systems for unmet medical and pharmaceutical needs. In particular, her research on nanomedicines mainly focuses on the oral delivery of lipidic and polymeric nanoparticles loaded with drugs and the intravenous and local delivery of nanomedicines targeting the tumoral endothelium and cancer cells. She also focuses on the delivery of DNA and RNA with a particular interest in vaccination and cancer treatments. She supervised 38 PhD theses. She is author of more than 250 publications and book chapters with a h index 54 and more than 11500 citations. She is a highly cited researcher since 2015.