Jan Lötvall's Biography

Jan Lötvall, Professor, University of Gothenburg; Founding President of ISEV; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles

Jan Lötvall is Professor at the Institute of Medicine at Göteborg University since 2002 where he directs a research laboratory studying extracellular vesicles. He is a medical specialist in both Clinical Allergy and Clinical Pharmacology, and has a long-term experience in translational studies in primarily inflammation, but also cancer. He was first elected President of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV, 2011-2016), a rapidly growing non-profit organisation in the field of exosomes, microvesicles and other extracellular vesicles (www.isev.org; >1100 members). The research line focusing on extracellular vesicle biology has received extensive international recognition, as the lab was first to discover the ability of exosomes to shuttle RNA between cells in 2007. During the period of May 2016 to January 2018, JL served as Chief Scientist at Codiak BioSciences, a startup biotech company focusing on developing exosomes as a therapeutic platform. From January 2018, JL was the founding editor of the journals “Clinical and Translational Allergy” (2011, IF 3.239) and Journal of Extracellular Vesicles (JEV: IF 14.9). JL is the current Editor-in-Chief of JEV since August 2019. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of Exocure Biosciences, a privately held vesicle therapeutics company.