Nicoletta Depalo is a Researcher at the Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes, Italian National Research Council, Bari, Italy. She received her Master’s Degree in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Chemistry of Innovative Materials at Università degli Studi di Bari in 2002 and 2007. Her research activities are focused on the preparation and characterization of multifunctional targeted (lipid, polymer, mesoporous silica-based) nanovectors for the selective delivery of molecular or nanostructured (inorganic colloidal nanoparticles with plasmonic, magnetic, photoactive properties) therapeutic/diagnostic agents in the biomedical field. Her research interests concern also the study of extracellular vesicles: isolation and purification (from human plasma and cell culture medium) for diagnostic purposes or manipulation for exploitation as physiological therapeutic nanovectors.