PROGRAM

SPEAKER
INFORMATION

Kenneth W. Witwer, PhD

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Depts of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology and Neurology

• A member of the Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Alzheimer’s Disease 
• Executive Chair of Science and Meetings, International Society for Extracellular Vesicles 
• Co-corresponding author of the MISEV2018 (Minimal Information for Studies of Extracellular Vesicles)
• Host of the Extracellular Vesicle Journal Club, YouTube 

Talk title
Advances in EV biodistribution and in vivo applications

Andrew Hill, PhD 

Professor, Associate Provost (Research and Industry Engagement), College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University 

• More than 200 publications, has an h-index of 81 and over 33,000 citations of his work.
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Extracellular Biology
• 2020 International Society for Extracellular Vesicles Special Achievement Award
  

Talk title
Extracellular vesicles and diseases of the ageing brain 

Joy Wolfram, PhD 

Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Australia 

• Former Director, Nanomedicine and Extracellular Vesicles Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, USA
• Named, Forbes 30 Under 30, US & Canada, 2019
• Scientific Advisory Board Member, Genomill Health Rising Star in Cancer Research, The Scientist, 2020

Talk title
Therapeutic and diagnostic extracellular vesicles for inflammatory diseases and cancer

Matthew JA Wood, PhD 

Professor of Neuroscience, Oxford University, UK 

• Deputy Head Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford 
• Director, Oxford Harrington Rare Disease Centre 
• Director, MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre  
• Interim Director, UK Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA)  
• Co-founder and Scientific Advisory Board Member, Evox Therapeutics  

Talk title
Genetic therapies for neuromuscular disease 

HOST

In-San Kim, MD PhD 

Principal research scientist, Korea Institute Science & Technology 

• Professor, KU-KIST school, Korea University 
• President, Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
• Co-Founder, ShiftBio