Junior Editorial Board
Junior Editorial Board Members
Leonora Balaj
Ph.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: cancer biology, biomarkers, exosomes
Research Interests: EV, exosomes, small EV, biomarker, heart regeneration, heart disease, EV based therapy, EV characterisation and analysis, drug delivery
Research Interests: extracellular nucleic acid, extracellular vesicle cargo (nucleic acid), brain-derived EVs, biofluid derived EVs and EVs as cell-cell signal, extracellular RNA
Celeste Caruso Bavisotto
Ph.D., Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostic (BiND), Human Anatomy Section, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Research Interests: cancer research, molecular chaperones, liquid biopsy, extracellular vesicle, biomarker, early diagnosis
Sveva Bollini
Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Research Interests: stem cell-derived Evs, secretome, paracrine communication in regenerative medicine, perinatal derivatives, cardiac repair and regeneration, cardioprotection, myocardial infarction, cardiotoxicity, ageing
Zhijian Cai
Professor, Professor, Institute of Immunology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, tumor immunity, autoimmunity, TGF-b, CD4+ T cells
Research Interests: ovarian cancer, chemoresistance, necroptosis, stem cells
Research Interests: emerging infectious diseases, host-pathogen interactions, extracellular vesicles, small RNA
Research Interests: tumor microenvironment, extracellular vesicles, mutant p53, radiotherapy, alpha-particles, tumor immunology
Sophie C. Cox
Associate Professor, Healthcare Technologies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Research Interests: bone tissue engineering, biomaterials, extracellular vesicles
Research Interests: biomaterials, stem cells, extracellular vesicles, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, cartilage and bone, cardiac tissue engineering
Research Interests: RNA, RNA-binding proteins, biofluid extracellular vesicles, biomarker, drug screening, EV engineering
Research Interests: extracellular vesicle-based therapies, vascular disease, plant derived EVs, proteomics, transcriptomics, single-cell-omics
Research Interests: bone diseases, extracellular vesicles
Haifeng Dong
Professor, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
Research Interests: biosensing, drug delivery, nanomedicine, microRNA
Research Interests: extracellular vesicle, apoptosis, neurodegeneration, biomarker, assay development, inflammation
Research Interests: microRNA, lung cancer, extracellular vesicles, angiogenesis, 3D models
Research Interests: nutrient-related signals, stem cell-derived extracelluar vesicles, brain derived extracellular vesicles, protein S-palmitoylation, histone modifications, brain insulin resistance
Susana Garcia-Silva
Associate Professor, Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Universidad Carlos III, Avenida de la Universidad, Madrid, Spain
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, metastasis, pre-metastatic niche formation, melanoma, liquid biopsy
Research Interests: exosomes, cell-cell crosstalk, miRNA, tissue injury and repair, regenerative medicine
Research Interests: neuron-glia communication, glia cells, exosomes
André Görgens
Ph.D., Researcher at Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Biomolecular and Cellular Medicine, Translational Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Research Interests: EVs, EV Flow Cytometry, imaging flow cytometry, EV heterogeneity, biomarkers, bioengineering, therapy, stem cells, hematopoiesis, ieukemia
Research Interests: molecular imaging probes, nanomedicines, exosomes, fluorescence imaging in the second near-infrared window
Research Interests: exosomes, extracellular vesicles (EVs), innate immunity regulation, EVs and Interferon response, EVs and autophagy regulation, EV-associated viral RNA, EV-associated monocyte differentiation, EV regulation of signaling pathways
Research Interests: epigenetics, oral biofluids, salivary biomarkers, extracellular vesicles, periodontitis
Mario Hiroyuki Hirata
Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Research Interests: metabolic and cardiovascular disease, extracellular vesicles, microparticles make connections between cells (tissues in the body)
Ayuko Hoshino
Associate Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Research Interests: exosome biology, cancer metastasis, neurodevelopmental disease, autism, biomarker
Shenglin Huang
Professor, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: tumor-related RNA, specific transcript identification, blood extracellular vesicle, exosomal RNA
Research Interests: noncoding RNA, extracellular vesicle, exosomal miRNA, tumor microenvrionment
Md Nazmul Islam
Assistant Professor, School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Tees Valley, UK
Research Interests: electrochemistry, cancer diagnostics, circulating biomarkers, exosomes & bacterial outer membrane vesicles
Research Interests: exosomes, extracellular vesicles, neurodegenerative diseases, biosensing, biomarker discovery pipeline
Research Interests: cancer research, exosome biology, synthetic biology
Research Interests: engineering extracellular vesicle as a drug delivery system, nanoconfinement mediated hyperthermic system, nanoparticle based theranostic system, cancer exosome diagnosis system
Research Interests: spatial biology, tumor microenvironment, spatial transcriptomics, liquid biopsy, circulating tumour cells
Meena Kumari
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, KS, USA
Research Interests: exosomes, RNA-Seq, non-coding RNAs, drugs of abuse, gene expression, mRNA stability
Research Interests: exosomes, neuroscience, healthy aging, biomarkers
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, tRNA-derived small RNAs, regeneration, and cardiovascular diseases
Xing Li
Ph.D., College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shannxi, China
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, target therapy, demyelinating disease, oligodendrocyte
Xiuming Liang
Ph.D., Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Research Interests: extracellular vesicle engineering, gene editing by engineered EVs, intracellular protein delivery by engineered EVs, EV-based biotherapeutics delivery, EV biodistribution, EV biology, Virus-like particles engineering
Research Interests: bacterial extracellular vesicles, infection and immunity, pathogens-host interaction, vaccine, delivery vecto
Research Interests: regenerative medicine, stem cells, extracellular vesicles
Ahmed Lotfy
Ph.D., Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, SC, USA
Research Interests: MSCs-derived EVs, exosomes, EV based therapy
Olivier D. Loudig
Associate Professor, Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, NJ, USA
Research Interests: exhaled extracellular vesicles, microRNAs, cancer, lung injury, biomarkers, next generation sequencing (NGS), prostate cancer, breast cancer, plasma, EV purification
Research Interests: nano-material sterilization technology, new nanomedical diagnostic technology, ctDNA, circulating tumor cells, extracellular vesicles
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, virus-host interactions, cancer, extracellular vesicle-based diagnostics and therapeutics
Pietro Parisse
Ph.D., Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A, Trieste, Italy
Research Interests: extracellular Vesicles, biophysical characterization of EVs, model membranes, biomechanics
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, molecular diagnostics, nucleic acid nanotechnology, biosensing, theranostics
Carlos Pedraz
Ph.D., Germans Trias i Pujol Health Sciences Institute and Hospital Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Research Interests: circRNA, cfDNA, liquid biopsies, EVs, extracellular vesicles, exosomes, and platelets
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, exosomes, miRNA, small RNA, mRNA, cfRNA, cfDNA, sequencing, prostate cancer, renal cancer, diabetic kidney disease, biomarkers, electron microscopy, EV isolation, urine, plasma
Piul S. Rabbani
Assistant Professor, Hansjorg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: extracellular communication; chronic wounds; wound healing; tissue engineering; biomaterials
Research Interests: exosomes, extracellular vesicles, cell therapy, regenerative medicine, stem cells
Antonia Reale
MD, Adjunct Research Fellow, PhD candidate, Myeloma Research Group, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Research Interests: translational research in myeloma & extracellular vesicles, biomarkers, cancer
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, microRNAs, pregnancy
Sharanjot Saini
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
Research Interests: exosomes, extracellular vesicles, microRNA
Julien Saint-Pol
Associate Professor,Faculté des Sciences Jean Perrin, Université d'Artois, Arras, France
Research Interests: blood-brain barrier, extracellular vesicles, cell-cell communication, endothelial cells, brain pericytes, oxysterols, tetraspanins, mass spectrometry
Arianna Scuteri
Associate Professor, Experimental Neurology Unit, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
Research Interests: peripheral neuropathy, neurotoxicity, neuroprotection, mesenchymal stem cells, extracellular vesicles, tunneling nanotubes
Research Interests: nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, drug delivery systems, extracelullar vesicles, protein therapeutics production
Susmita Sil
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, HIV, drug abuse, neurodegenerative diseases
Research Interests: bone degenerative diseases, exosomes, development and medical application of biomaterials, extracellular vesicles, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and stem cells
Research Interests: stroke, extracellular vesicles, stem cells, glial cells, tissue engineering
Research Interests: liquid biopsy, cancer diagnosis, proteomics, glycoproteomics
Research Interests: stem cell, regenerative medicine, bio-engineering, extracellular vesicles, exosomes
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles (EVs), plant-derived EVs, lipidomics, autophagy, senescence
Research Interests: microRNAs, Wnt signalling, cancer metastasis, cancer stem cells, EV
Yuan Wan
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University-SUNY, Binghamton, NY, USA
Research Interests: in vitro diagnostics of cancer and drug delivery for targeted therapeutics, biomimetic micro/nano/technolgies, extracellular vesicles
Research Interests: research on immune regulation and pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, tumor immunotherapy, exosomes
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, microRNAs, liquid biopsies, nanodevices, microfluidics
Research Interests: amphetamine/opioids, addiction, chronic Inflammation, stem cells and brain organoids, microRNAs and HIV/HAND, extracellular vesicles
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease, stem cells, omics data, biomarkers, human biopsies, cell type-specific EV profiling
Jiujiu Yu
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, dietary vesicle-like nanoparticles, chronic inflammation, NLRP3 inflammasome, metabolic diseases
Yong Zeng
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Floirda, FL, USA
Research Interests: microfluidics, nanotechnology, liquid biopsy, extracellular vesicles, CRISPR diagnostics
Yadong Zheng
Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Research Interests: microRNA, extracellular vesicles, pathogen-host interaction, parasitology
Media Editors
Research Interests: small extracellular vesicles, LC-MS proteomics, neuroscience, biomarker discovery