Mahdi Karimi received his BSc in medical laboratory science from the Iran University of Medical Sciences. He then earned an MSc in medical biotechnology from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and joined the Tarbiat Modares University as a PhD student in nanobiotechnology. He went on to join the department of medical nanotechnology at Iran University of Medical Sciences as an assistant professor.
Navid Rabiee graduated with a BSc from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, in 2016. In 2018, he received his MSc in inorganic chemistry from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. In 2017, he joined the Advances Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine Research Group to collaborate with Mahdi Karimi's research lab at the Iran University of Medical Science, in association Michael R Hamblin from Harvard Medical School, USA.
Michael R Hamblin is a principal investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery and he has authored or edited 23 textbooks on photodynamic therapy and photomedicine.

Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Drug Delivery Approaches 2.1. Survey of Chemical and Physical Properties of Nanomaterials 2.2. Critical Advances in Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery Chapter 3 Polymeric and Hyper-Branched Nanoparticles and Dendrimers 3.1. Polymeric Nanomaterials 3.2. Dendrimer Nanostructures Chapter 4 Advances in Nature-Inspired Nanomaterials 4.1. Polysaccharide-based nanomaterials 4.2. Cellulose-based nanostructures 4.3. Hyaluronic acid-decorated structures 4.4. Chitosan-based nanoparticles Chapter 5 Carbon-based Nanomaterials 5.1. Multi-walled/single-walled carbon nanotubes 5.2. Quantum dot-based approaches Chapter 6 Aptamers and pathogen-based carriers 6.1. Aptamers 6.2 Virus-based approaches 6.3 Bacterial-based approaches