Exosomes and Microvesicles

Date: Monday, 23 March 2015 - Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Location: Boston, USA

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Keynote Speakers

Xandra Breakefield
Professor, Mass General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School

Doug Taylor
Chief Scientific Officer, Exosome Sciences Inc

Nitzan Rosenfeld
Senior Group Leader, Cancer Research UK and CSO, Inivata Ltd.

Davina Gale
Head of Molecular Diagnostics, Co-Founder, Inivata

David Wong
Felix and Mildred Yip Endowed Chair in Dentistry; Director for UCLA Center for Oral/Head & Neck Oncology Research, University of California-Los Angeles

John Palma
Chief Medical Officer, Roche Sequencing Solutions

Johan Skog
Chief Scientific Officer, Exosome Diagnostics Inc

Vincent Miller
Chief Medical Officer, Foundation Medicine

Overview

The 2^nd. Annual SELECTBIO Circulating Biomarkers World Congress 2015 brings together academic researchers as well as industry participants to present and discuss the most up-to-date research and commercial activities in the translation of various circulating biomarker classes towards the clinic.

This conference track discusses Extracellular Vesicle (EV)-based Biomarkers -- contained within exosomes, microvesicles, and other EV classes.

Technologies for studying various classes of circulating biomarkers in EVs are presented as well as the potential applications of EVs beyond a source of biomarkers per se to more focused as vectors for therapeutic delivery.

Also presented are the characteristics of EV-based circulating biomarkers in various disease classes, such as Cancer, CVD, CNS disease, amongst others.

Agenda Topics

Circulating Biomarkers based on Epigenetic Modifications
EV Cargo and Biomarker Potential--Classes of Biomarker Cargo: DNA, RNA, Protein
EVs as Delivery Vehicles--Potential of EVs Beyond Biomarkers to Engineered Delivery Vectors for Therapeutics

Engineered Exosomes
Therapeutic Applications of Exosomes

Exosomes and Microvesicles in Various Disease Classes (such as Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, CNS, Immunology))
Exosomes, Microvesicles, and Other Classes of Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) as Circulating Biomarkers
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for Characterizing Circulating Biomarkers

Applications of RNA-Seq for Studying Exosomes and Microvesicles

Technologies and Approaches for Isolating and Characterizing Circulating Biomarkers

Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

Jeff Fan, Exhibition Manager
jeff@selectbioconferences.com
+1-510-857-4865

Confirmed Speakers to date

Elena Aikawa, Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Leonora Balaj, Instructor in Neurosurgery, Mass General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School
Chaya Brodie, Professor, Henry Ford Hospital
Dolores Di Vizio, Professor, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Roopali Gandhi, Assistant Professor in Neurology, Head of MS Biomarkers, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Sandra Gaston, Director, Molecular Biomarkers Research Laboratory; Scientific Director, Tufts Medical Center Biorepository, Tufts Medical Center
Cicek Gercel-Taylor, Clinical Research Director, Exosome Sciences Inc.
Ionita Ghiran, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Hyungsoon Im, Associate Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Mass General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School
Daniel Jay, Professor, Tufts University
Shlomit Kenigsberg, Senior Researcher, Create Fertility Centre
Anastasia Khvorova, Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Bernard Lam, Senior Research Scientist, Norgen Biotek Corporation
Casey Maguire, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Héctor Peinado Selgas, Head of Microenvironment and Metastasis Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Leileata Russo, Research Professor, Mass General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School
Martin Schlumpberger, Associate Director, Scientific Applications, QIAGEN
John Tigges, Flow Cytometry Science Center Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Vasilis Toxavidis, Resource Director of BIDMC/HSCI Flow Cytometry Core, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, Professor and Deputy Director, Translational Genomics Research Institute
Yong Zeng, Associate Professor, University of Florida