Dr Maryam Malekigorji is a pharmacist and completed a PhD in nanopharmaceutics at Keele University, UK. Currently she is a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, working at both School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast and China Medical University-Queen's University Belfast Joint College (known as CQC), located in Shenyang, People's Republic of China. Dr Malekigorji is CQC Program Director in Pharmaceutical Science BSc degree pathway and was awarded Queen’s University Teaching Award in 2018.

Her current research interests lie in the preparation and evaluation of metallic nanoparticles as multifunctional platform for diagnosis and therapy of cancers.