Junior Editorial Board

Leonora Balaj
Ph.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: cancer biology, biomarkers, exosomes

Carolina Balbi
Ph.D., Researcher at Laboratory for Translational Research, Cellular and Molecular Cardiology Dept, ICCT-EOC, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Research Interests: EV, exosomes, small EV, biomarker, heart regeneration, heart disease, EV based therapy, EV characterisation and analysis, drug delivery

Isabel Barranco
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medicine and Animal Surgery, University of Murcia, Spain
Research Interests: seminal extracellular vesicles, reproductive extracellular vesicles, sperm, fertility, reproduction, seminal plasma, pig

Research Interests: extracellular nucleic acid, extracellular vesicle cargo (nucleic acid), brain-derived EVs, biofluid derived EVs and EVs as cell-cell signal, extracellular RNA

Research Interests: cancer research, molecular chaperones, liquid biopsy, extracellular vesicle, biomarker, early diagnosis

Tina Bilousova
Ph.D., Assistant Professional Researcher, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, exosomes, Alzheimer’s disease, tauopathy, neurodegeneration, senescence

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

Qiang Cai
Professor, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Research Interests: plant extracellular vesicles, plant immunity, microbial extracellular vesicles, cell-to-cell communication, host-microbe interactions
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Kishore B. Challagundla
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University, NY, USA
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, EVs in the tumor immune-microenvironment, extracellular RNAs, EVs in biomarker discovery, EVs & liquid biopsy, EVs & CRISPR diagnostics

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

Research Interests: Alzheimer’s disease, exosome, biomarker

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

Carine de Marcos Lousa
phD., School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, UK
Research Interests: EVs, exosomes, plants, cross-kingdom interaction, biomedicine

Research Interests: bone diseases, extracellular vesicles

Xin Ding
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China
Research Interests: antimicrobial drug delivery, nanomedicine, outer membrane vesicles

Haifeng Dong
Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 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

Xavier Gallart-Palau
Miguel Servet Assistant Professor, Head of +Pec Proteomics Research Group (+PPRG), Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida – (IRBLLEIDA), Neuroscience Area - University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova (HUAV), Lleida, Spain; Health Campus - University of Lleida (UdL), Lleida, Spain.
Research Interests: Intercellular communication, extracellular vesicles, aging, biochemistry, proteomics, metabolomics, neurodegenerative diseases, aging-associated dementias, clinical neuroscience

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

Bethany Hannafon
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Research Interests: cellular and molecular biology, gynecologic cancers, tumor microenvironment, extracellulat vesicles, cancer progression, therapeutic resistance, drug development

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
Research Interests: noncoding RNA, extracellular vesicle, exosomal miRNA, tumor microenvrionment

Nunzio Iraci
PhD., Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Research Interests: molecular mechanisms of CNS protection and repair, neurodegeneration, glia, astrocytes, neural stem cells, cell-to-cell communication via EVs in Eukaryota and Bacteria
Research Interests: exosomes, extracellular vesicles, neurodegenerative diseases, biosensing, biomarker discovery pipeline

Xin Jin
Professor, Institute of Life Sciences, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Research Interests: cell-free nucleic acids, population genetics, genetic basis of complex disease, reproductive health
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Kentaro Jingushi
Ph.D., Specially Appointed Associate Professor/Lecturer, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Research Interests: cancer biology, extracellular vesicles

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

Gunwoo Lee
PhD., Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Spine Center, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Medical Center, Daegu, South Korea; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Michigan State University, MI, USA
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, biomarkers, stem cells, translational research, mechanisms of disease progression, diagnosis, therapeutic development, skin inflammation

Stephen M. Lewis
PhD., Scientific Director, Atlantic Cancer Research Institute, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Research Interests: cancer, biomarkers, miRNA, EV isolation, protein synthesis

Xing Li
Ph.D., College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shannxi, China
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, target therapy, demyelinating disease, oligodendrocyte
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, tRNA-derived small RNAs, regeneration, and cardiovascular diseases

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

Han Liu
Associate Professor, Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: synthetic biology, bacterial extracellular vesicles, organoid extracellular vesicles, gut bone axis, extracellular vesicle-based diagnostics and therapeutics

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 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: cardiovascular diseases, cardiovascular development; regeneration, tissue repair, EV, exosomes, mRNA therapeutics and delivery, heart failure, gene therapy, EV-based therapy

Tânia Martins-Marques
PhD.; Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra; Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology (CIBB); Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research (iCBR), Coimbra, Portugal
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, cardiovascular diseases, myocardial infarction, aortic stenosis, gap junctions, autophagy

Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, virus-host interactions, cancer, extracellular vesicle-based diagnostics and therapeutics
Research Interests: EV characterization and heterogeneity, EV biogenesis, EV target cell interaction, cancer, biomarkers

Justus Chukwunonso Ndukaife
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Research Interests: plasmonic and resonant dielectric nanostructures for efficient nano-optical trapping, manipulation, enhanced spectroscopy, and sensing of nanoscale biological objects such as nano-sized extracellular vesicles

Research Interests: extracellular vesicles characterisaton, mechanisms of extracellular vesicle release, extracellular vesicles in inflammation and coagulation, cell-cell communication, in-vitro model of lung inflammation, lung diseases, biomarkers

Research Interests: prostate cancer, radioresistance, biomarker discovery, extracellular vesicles, breast cancer
Research Interests: extracellular Vesicles, biophysical characterization of EVs, model membranes, biomechanics

Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, molecular diagnostics, nucleic acid nanotechnology, biosensing, theranostics

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

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

Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, HIV, drug abuse, neurodegenerative diseases

Rosa Suades
Molecular Pathology and Therapeutic of Ischaemic and Atherothrombotic Diseases, Sant Pau Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, atherothrombosis, cardiometabolic disease, cardiovascular risk factors, epigenetics,hypercholesterolemia, microvesicle, non-coding RNAs

Research Interests: stroke, extracellular vesicles, stem cells, glial cells, tissue engineering

Research Interests: cancer research, urological cancers, liquid biopsy, extracellular vesicle cargo (nucleic acid), molecular biomarkers, EVs based therapy

Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, inter- and intra-organ communications, heart failure, traumatic brain injury and redox biology

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

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
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Wayne (Weizong) Weng
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopeadics, Chenggong Hospital affiliated to Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
Research Interests: bone degenerative diseases, sports medicine, Orthpeadics trauma,exosomes, biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug delivery

Reza Yarani
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Translational Type 1 Diabetes Research, Department of Clinical and Translational Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark
Research Interests: extracellular vesicles, mesenchymal stromal cells, autoimmunity, regenerative medicine

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
Research Interests: microfluidics, nanotechnology, liquid biopsy, extracellular vesicles, CRISPR diagnostics
Research Interests: regenerative dentistry, osteoimmunology, stem cells, extracellular vesicles

Yazhen Zhu
Assistant Researcher, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research Interests: liquid biopsy, extracellular vesicles, circulating tumor cell, molecular diagnosis

Research Interests: small extracellular vesicles, LC-MS proteomics, neuroscience, biomarker discovery

Research Interests: tumor immune microenvironment regulation and visualization, engineered extracellular vesicles for cancer therapy and tissue repair