Experts in Intercellular Communication

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Adriana Kajon, PhD

Senior Scientist/ Professor Infectious Disease Program Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute

Dr. Kajon's laboratory conducts studies of the molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of human adenovirus acute respiratory infections in susceptible populations, including transplant recipients, and children acquiring primary infections in their communities. Her research

Amanda Brown, PhD

Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Neurology & Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Brown's research identifies the mechanisms and consequences of HIV-induced proinflammatory signaling in the central nervous system. Her lab is currently using the latest innovations in humanized mice and reprogramming myeloid progenitors and

Ashley Russell, PhD

Assist. Prof., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Dr. Russell's research focuses on the effects of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration on EV release and composition. In addition, she is researching the effects of maternal stress (specifically post-traumatic stress disorder; PTSD) on pregnancy

Aurelio Lorico, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Touro University, Nevada School of Medicine

Dr. Lorico specializes in the mechanisms of cell-cell communications in cancer with special emphasis on extracellular vesicles (EVs), the nuclear transport of EV cargo and the design, synthesis, the evaluation of anti-cancer and

Chioma M. Okeoma, MSc, Phd

Prof. & V. Chair of Res., Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, NY Medical College

Dr. Okeoma’s vast expertise in cutting-edge research focuses on understanding the biology and functions of extracellular particles, including extracellular vesicles (EVs) and extracellular condensates (ECs). Visit the Okeoma Lab for more information.

Christie Fowler, PhD

Prof. & Chancellor’s Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, UC Irvine

Dr. Fowler’s research centers on elucidating the genetic, epigenetic and neurobiological mechanisms underlying neural signaling and behaviors that characterize drug addiction and psychiatric disorders. Her studies with extracellular vesicles focus on understanding the

Fatah Kashanchi, PhD

Professor, Virology & Director, Laboratory of Molecular Virology

fkashanc@gmu.edu

Dr. Kashanchi studied HIV-1 gene expression, B-cell development, and gp120 ELISA under Dr. C. Wood, a student of the Nobel Laureate, Dr. Tongawa. After serving as a Postdoctoral and Research Associate Fellow at

Gagan Deep, PhD

Professor, Dept.of Cancer Biology, Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist

Dr. Deep's research focuses on the development of blood-based biomarkers for a range of disease conditions, including cancer and neurological disorders, utilizing extracellular vesicles. His team has created innovative tools and techniques to

Hameeda Sultana, MS, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicin

Dr. Sultana studies vector-borne diseases where she investigates arthropod exosomes in facilitating the transmission of tick and mosquito-borne flaviviruses from vector to the vertebrate host. Her laboratory was the first to provide evidence

Heather Branscome, PhD

Laboratory of Molecular Virology, George Mason University

Dr. Heather Branscome obtained her Ph.D. in 2020 on the effect of stem cell exosomes and repair of aging and damaged cells. She also has over 13 years of industry experience (ATCC) covering

Julie Anne Saugstad, PhD

Professor, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine

Dr. Saugstad’s lab is focused on studies to develop miRNA biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The discovered miRNAs that distinguish AD from controls in cerebrospinal fluid from living donors, and have now shown

Lucia Languino, PhD

Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology, Cancer Biology

Dr. Languino's research interests are in the area of prostate cancer, focusing on integrin-mediated signaling pathways/mechanisms which promote cancer progression. For more than 10 years, she has studied regulatory signals mediated by exosomes

Mark Santos, PhD

Research Scientist, Touro University, Nevada School of Medicine

Dr. Santos's research characterizes the proteins involved in transporting extracellular vesicle cargo into the nucleus of cells and developing techniques to visualize these vesicles in fixed and live samples by super-resolution STORM and

Meta Kuehn, PhD

Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Duke University

The Kuehn Lab developed “gold-standard” protocols involving density-gradient purification, quantitative lipid and protein analysis, and cell lysis controls that are critical to the evaluation and characterization of genuine vesicle production and function. As

Michael Graner, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus

Dr. Graner is past President of the Society for Thermal Medicine, a Fellow of the Cell Stress Society International, Research Director of the University of Colorado Neurosurgery Tissue Bank, and Co-Director of the

Navneet Dogra, PhD

Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences & Pathology, Molecular, and Cell Based Medicine,

Dr. Dogra's laboratory is working on the emerging field of genomics, liquid biopsy, and gene delivery, including: 1) Exosomes, Extracellular vesicles – nanoparticles actively secreted by cancer/tumor and benign tissue in human biofluids,

Nikki Noren Hooten, PhD

Senior Associate Scientist, NIH, NIA

Dr. Hooten uses an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to study how oxidative stress, post-transcriptional mechanisms and other pathways contribute to health disparities, aging and age-related diseases. She is interested in utilizing extracellular vesicles as

Olivier Ludig, PhD

Associate Member, Center for Discovery Innovation, Member, Hackensack Meridian Health Network

Dr. Ludig's laboratory has been focused on the identification of circulating extracellular biomarkers for early and non-invasive detection of breast, lung, and prostate cancers. For this purpose, they recently developed EV-CATCHER, an ultra-sensitive

Pooja Jain, MS, BEd, PhD

Prof. Microbiology & Immun and Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel Univ. College of Medicine

Dr. Jain's expertise lies in the mechanistics of retrovirus infection-associated cancer and neuroinflammation, myeloid/dendritic cell-based immunotherapy, and extracellular vesicles and exosomes. Visit the Jain Lab for more information.

Prasun Datta, PhD

Associate Professor, Tulane National Primate Research Center

Dr. Datta's area of expertise is in EV/infectious diseases, specifically in HIV-1 infection of the brain, and EV as a therapeutic vehicle. Oral microbiome OMVs (outer membrane vesicles). Get more information on Dr. Prasun

Ramin Hakami, PhD

Assoc. Prof., Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Co-Director, Center for Infectious Disease Researc

https://science.gmu.edu/directory/ramin-hakami

Dr. Hakimi’s research deciphers the molecular mechanisms by which EVs, including small EVs, regulate innate immune response to highly pathogenic viruses or bacteria that cause human diseases, such as SARS-CoV-2, Rift Valley fever

Shilpa Buch, PhD

Prof. & S. Exec. Vice Chair for Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Med

Dr. Buch's research focuses on elucidating the role of exosomes as carriers of vital signaling mediators, particularly small noncoding RNAs and microRNAs, which play a critical role in regulating gene expression and facilitating

Susmita Sil, PhD

Assis. Prof., Dpt. of Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience, Univ. of Nebraska

Dr. Sil's areas of expertise involves the assessment of different drugs of abuse and HIV on lncRNA mediated synaptodegenaration via glial-neuronal crosstalk by extracellular vesicles. She has also started working towards exosomes as

Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD

Dr. Ikezu’s research focuses on neuroimmune cell-mediated regulations of neuronal function, neurogenesis, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. His lab is particularly interested in how the innate immune-related cells, extracellular vehicles (EVs) and molecules in the

Xuesong Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sci

Dr. Chen’s research focuses on the role endolysosomes (endosomes, lysosomes, and autolysosomes) in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, and neurological complications of COVID-19. He has extensive background

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