Dr. Payam Behzadi is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. He has a BSc and MSc in Microbiology from North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences. He has authored and edited more than twenty-five books and book chapters and more than ninety-five original and review articles. His scientific research interests include urinary tract infections, antibiotics, bioinformatics, genetics, gene profiling, molecular biology, and cellular and molecular immunology.