ISEV Annual Meeting Award Winners 

ISEV 2025
Scholarship WinnersOutstanding Oral Presentation Awards Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards Image Competition

ISEV 2024
Scholarship Winners | Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards | Image Competition

ISEV 2023
Scholarship Winners | Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards | Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards 

ISEV 2022
Scholarship Winners | Outstanding Oral Presentation AwardsOutstanding Poster Presentation Awards 

ISEV 2021
Scholarship Winners | Outstanding Oral Presentation AwardsOutstanding Poster Presentation Awards 

ISEV 2019
Scholarship Winners | Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards | Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards 

ISEV 2018
Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards | Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards


ISEV2025 

Scholarship Winners 

Maimonah Al-Masawa Piyush Kumar Inderjeet Kaur
Ayesha Ayesha Lies De Groef Sara Busatto
Ying Zhang Nao Nishida-Aoki Bao-Hong Lee
Sara Cavallaro Shili Yao Juliana Powell
Jasper van den Ende Kaixiang Zhang Zhen Zhang
Hannah Weissinger Aakash Nathani Tram Nguyen
Brianna Hnath Maria Chiara Ciferri Cuno Laurin Lange
Taylon Silva Monique Bagwell Kyle Bramich
Lien Lippens Louise Merle Luigi Menna
Lélia Borowski Vivian Hegeman Paola Gargano
András Försönits Amélie Vander Cruyssen Thupten Tsering
Ishai Luz Norhayati Liaqat Ali Khan  

 

OUTSTANDING ORAL PRESENTATION AWARDS
Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Control Neutrophil Inflammation via CD39/CD73-Mediated ATP Cleavage Martina Fabiano (Johns Hopkins University, US)
Distinct role of large oncosomes in modulating bone marrow microenvironment and promoting metastasis through immune reprogramming in cancer progression Taylon F. Silva (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, US)
Phase separation induce the generation and cargo sorting of exosomes in multivesicular bodies Kaixiang Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
From challenge to opportunity: a methodology to measure reproducible EV concentrations Britta A. Bettin (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Extracellular Vesicle Online Knowledge Explorer (EVOKE) - A guiding tool for the selection of extracellular vesicles preparation methods Claudio A. Pinheiro (Ghent University, Belgium)

 

OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION AWARDS 

BEST OVERALL AND ISEV2024 WILEY JOURNAL POSTER PRIZE WINNER - Bioinformatics-driven approach for profiling the kidney source of single urine extracellular vesicles

Chin-Ya Sophie Chiang (Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital, Australia)
POSTER PRIZE WINNER Extracellular vesicle-mediated anti-tumor immunity in response to radiotherapy Chisom J. Uzendu (Mayo Clinic, US)
POSTER PRIZE WINNER Investigating the Role of CD133-Enriched Protrusion-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Aggressiveness Mireia Gomez-Duro (Institut Curie, France)
POSTER PRIZE WINNER Probiotic extracellular vesicles as potential immune mediators Agnieszka Razim (Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy PAS, Poland)
POSTER PRIZE WINNER High-dimensional single-cell profiling of EV recipients by Tellurium-based labeling of the EV proteome (TeLEV) identifies EV-driven transformation of the immune microenvironment in chronic lymphocytic leukemia Daniel Bachurski (University of Cologne Germany, Germany)

 

IMAGE COMPETITION

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles Image Competition Award 2025

"So much to say"

Elise Vanderploeg (Age 11)

Journal of Extracellular Biology Image Competition Award 2025

“EVs besieging nuclei”

Manon Jammes

ISEV2024 Image Competition - Children's Competition Winner

“The Gut Battlefield: Probiotics vs. Fungi via EVs”

Wei-Hsuan Hsu; Yu-Luo Lee (Bruce Lee), 8 years old, from ​Tainan BANYAN Academy (Taiwan)

ISEV2025 Image Competition - Overall Winner

“A nanoscale spectra world: blood extracellular vesicles under AFM-IR interpretation”

Jéssica Verônica da Silva

ISEV2025 Image Competition - 

Interpretative Junior

“Screaming in vesicles”

Macarena Díaz Ubilla

ISEV2025 Image Competition - Interpretative Senior

“When cells communicate, they don't use words — they exchange membrane-wrapped molecules, whispering the codes of life” 

Ana Claudia Carreira 

ISEV2025 Image Competition - Scientific Junior 

“Forged in the depths of the endosomal system, this vesicle emerges like the Eye of Sauron - ever watchful, ever signaling 

Letícia Fernandes 

ISEV2025 Image Competition - Scientific Senior   “Love”  

Tamás Visnovitz

 


ISEV2024 

Scholarship Winners 

Chitra Bamba, India Adam Bennett, Turkey Ziming Chen, Australia
Sin-Yu Chen, Taiwan Pin Hsuan Chu, Taiwan Lee-Ann Clegg, Denmark
Willemijn De Voogt, Netherlands Koushik Debnath, USA Amber Eliason, USA
Cynthia Aylin Garcia Guerrero, Chile Satyajit Ghosh, India Piyushkumar Gondaliya, USA
Tanner Henson, USA Wei-hsuan Hsu, Taiwan Yunyun Hu, China
Ioannis Isaioglou, Saudi Arabia Md Khirul Islam, Finland Hanguo Jiang, China
Jancy Johnson, Australia Dominika Kozakiewicz, Poland Eliana Lara Barba, Chile
Sheng Yuan, Singapore Ieong Tong Liao, China Norhayati Liaqat Ali Khan, Malaysia
Yaoyao Lu, Canada Thabiso Motaung, South Africa Olasehinde Olusanya, Nigeria
Manideep Pachva, Canada Aditi Patel, India Sanskriti Rai, India
Maria Angelica Rincon-Benavides, USA Samantha Roudi, Sweden Sharanjot Saini, USA
Mohammad Farouq Sharifpour, Australia Boyang Su, Canada Lu Tian, Hong Kong
Lewis Timms, United Kingdom Anastasiya Tolstoluzhinskaya, Russia Hulya Torun, USA
Joseph Trani, Canada Ryosuke Uekusa, Japan Adam Wells, United Kingdom
Samuel Wan Ki Wong, Hong Kong Yvette Wooff, Australia Keyang Xu, Hong Kong
Nai Yang Yeat, Taiwan Yuxia Zhang, China Yanan Zhang, Switzerland
Yunyue Zhang, United Kingdom    

 

OUTSTANDING ORAL PRESENTATION AWARDS
Shimazu-ANZSEV Emerging Scientist Award Stephanie Rutter
ISEV2024 Journal of Extracellular Vesicles Oral Prize Ruediger Gross
ISEV2024 Journal of Extracellular Biology Oral Prize Ryosuke Kojima
ISEV2024 Conference Oral Prize Li Min
ISEV2024 Conference Oral Prize Anthony Yan-Tang
ISEV2024 Conference Oral Prize Andrew Kassianos
ISEV2024 Conference Oral Prize Georgia Atkin-Smith
ISEV2024 Conference Oral Prize Colin Hisey
 
OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION AWARDS 
ISEV2024 Wiley Journals Poster Prize Li-Ying Wu 
ISEV2024 PeerJ Poster Prize Hugues Martin 
ISEV2024 Conference Poster Prize Shikha Rani
ISEV2024 Conference Poster Prize Ruby Gorman-Batt 
ISEV2024 Conference Poster Prize Maimonah Al-Masawa 
ISEV2024 Conference Poster Prize Trinh Tran 

 

IMAGE COMPETITION
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles Image Competition Award 2024 Maria Harmati
Journal of Extracellular Biology Image Competition Award 2024 Marley Dewey
ISEV2024 Image Competition - Top Senior Scientific Ayesha Saleem
ISEV2024 Image Competition - Top Senior Interpretive Rossella Crescitelli
ISEV2024 Image Competition - Top Junior Scientific Marwa Aly
ISEV2024 Image Competition - Top Junior Interpretive Lidia Medhin
ISEV2024 Image Competition - Top Childrens Interpretive Alessia Cattaneo

ISEV2023

Scholarship Winners 

Sameh Almousa Omnia Elsharkasy Bianca Pachane
Tanina Arab Nina Erwin Manideep Chowdary Pachva
Priscilla Avalos Mariani Farias Fiorenza Laura Patras
Syeda Batool Negin Farzamikia Sabrina Picciotto
Rashmi Bhardwaj Yourong Feng Francesca Pontis
George Biouss Pamali Fonseka Vidyanand Sasidharan
Tonje Bjornetro Ainara Gonzalez Janet Sorrells
Madhusudhan Bobbili Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova Yoshiyuki Tsuyama
Katy Bunn Morgan Greig Natalie Turner
Ding-Wen Chen Meixiang Huang Samantha Upson
Steven Ting-Yu Chuo Marie-Helene Normand Amir Wahid
Allaura Cone Alon Nudelman Hyun-Kyung Woo
Xiao-Hui Deng Joshua Olajide Tomofumi Yamamoto
  Olusanya Olasehinde Zhengrong Zhang
 
OUTSTANDING ORAL PRESENTATION AWARDS

Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each oral session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and

positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Oral Presentation awardees. 3 awardees were selected.

  • Bottom-up assembly of functional, fully synthetic extracellular vesicles for treatment of atopic dermatitis
    Meline Macher, Germany

  • Multiplexed inner and outer protein analysis of metastatic colorectal cancer patient plasma EVs on antibody microarrays
    Rosalie Martel, Canada

  • Age/senescence-related small extracellular vesicles biomarker discovery using multi-omics analysis
    Sandip Kumar Patel, USA

OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION AWARDS 

Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each poster session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and

positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Poster Presentation awardees. 9 awardees were selected.

  • EV sialylation in epithelial ovarian cancer as potential diagnostic biomarker
    Shruti Jain, Finland

  • Differential secretion of extracellular vesicle-bound YRNAs in the allergic airway
    Cherie Saffold, USA

  • Purification of virion-free extracellular vesicles from human cytomegalovirus-infected cells, guided by flow nanoanalysis
    Paschalia Pantazi, United Kingdom

  • Regulation of extracellular vesicle biogenesis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by MUC1 through its interaction with ALIX
    Kristine V. Hoagstrom, USA

  • In vivo neuronal and glial internalization of peripheral extracellular vesicles from Alzheimer’s patients: a potential mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease?
    Hermine Counil, Canada

  • Identification of a novel consensus motif for selective sorting of circular RNAs into extracellular vesicles
    Ahmed Gamal Abdelmagid Abdelgawad, USA

  • A comparison of enzymatic digestion strategies for the extraction of brain-derived extracellular vesicles
    Liam Barry-Carroll, France

  • Selenoprotein P regulates extracellular vesicle secretion from neurodegenerative microglia in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease
    Victor Bodart-Santos, USA

  • Breast cancer brain metastasis is suppressed by interfering adhesion of cancer EVs to the recipient cells
    Yuima Sakamoto, Japan


 

ISEV2022

Scholarship Winners 

Daniel Bachurski, Germany Tierra Bobo, USA Rebecca Davies, United Kingdom Aida Hansen, Denmark Colin Hisey, USA
Lisa Emerson, USA Boya Peng, Singapore Rachel Mizenko, USA Marieke Roefs, Netherlands  Pascal Ibrahim, Canada
Yuya Monoe, Japan Daan Paget, United Kingdom Aikaterini Kalargyrou, United Kingdom Qi Hui Poh, Australia  Adityas Purnianto, Australia 
Simran Rastogi, India  Surya Shrivastava, United States  Walther Traberg-Christensen, United Kingdom  Migmar Tsamchoe, Canada  André Görgens, Sweden 
Ranya Elsayed, United States  Aliosha Figueroa, Chile  Esra Bozbas, United Kingdom  Cristóbal Cerda Troncoso, Chile  Byeong Hyeon Choi, South Korea 
Luiz Henrique Andrilli, Brazil  Marta Garcia-Contreras, USA Kingdom  Molly Shen, Canada  Fang Cheng Wong, Germany  Cláudio Pinheiro, Belgium 
David Ramos, Portugal  Annemarijn Offens, Sweden  Timothea Konstantinou, United Kingdom  Enis Kostallari, United States  Naseer Kutchy, Grenada 
Xiuming Liang, Sweden  Zubair Ahmed Nizamudeen, United Kingdom 

Carolina Paganini, Switzerland

 

Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards
Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each oral session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Oral Presentation awardees. 5 awardees were selected.
  • Identification of neuron-specific extracellular vesicle markers

    Dmitry Ter-Ovanesyan, Harvard/Wyss Institute, Americas

  • Luminescence-based quantification of CD63-containing extracellular vesicle release reveals a role for PI4KIIIβ in bafilomycin-induced exosome secretion

    Maarten P Bebelman, Amsterdam UMC, Europe/Africa

  • Malaria-infected red blood cells release two distinct extracellular vesicle sub- populations featuring the ability to target different sub-cellular destinations

    Paula Abou Karam, Weizmann Institute of Science, Europe/Africa

  • Engineering extracellular vesicles for embryo implantation

    Qi Hui Poh, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Asia

  • Are microbiota-derived outer membrane vesicles promoters of inflammation and neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease (PD)?

    Tiana Koukoulis, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Asia

Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards 

Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each poster session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Poster Presentation awardees. 7 awardees were selected

  • T-cell derived evs prime the STING pathway in macrophages by a DNA-independent mechanism

    Aida Hansen, Aarhus University, Europe/Africa

  • Il8/CXCR1 axis induces biogenesis of small extracellular vesicles from A2780 ovarian cancer cells with pro-tumorigenic profile

    Albano Caceres-Verschae, Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago, Chile, Americas

  • Mapping the biodistribution of CD63 endogenously produced pancreatic cancer EVs

    Bárbara Adem, i3S/IPATIMUP/ICBAS, Europe/Africa

  • The effect of serum on human astrocyte reactivity and their extracellular vesicles in vitro

    Katherine E. White, University of Nottingham, Europe/Africa

  • An organoid-based kidney-liver Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip model to study the therapeutic effects and bio-distribution of mesenchymal stromal cell-derived extracellular vesicles

    Vivian Nguyen, Medical Center Utrecht, Europe/Africa

  • Extracellular vesicles released by picornavirus-infected cells trigger an antiviral response in immune cells

    Xinyi Pei, Utrecht University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Europe/Africa

  • Melanoma-derived extracellular vesicles mediate chemokine production in the tumour microenvironment

    Stephanie Bollard, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Europe/Africa 

 


ISEV2021

Scholarship Winners 

Miriam Aarsund Larsen, Norway
Julia Bauza-Martinez, The Netherlands
Sabrina La Salvia, USA
Monica Castro-Cruz, Belgium
Natalia Gebara, Italy
Stephen Lenzini, USA
Kenny Man, UK
Megan Mitchell, USA
Benjamin Mary, France
Jenna Morris-Love, USA
Muireann Ni Bhaoighill, UK
Morgan Pait, USA
Silvia Picciolini, Italy
Annika Pfeiffer, USA
Nadim Tawil, Canada
Yang You, USA
Rui Zhang, China
Shawn Veitch, Canada

Gwenan Andre-Gregoire, France
Mathilde Bergamelli, France
Sruti Bheri, USA
Tzu-Yi Chen, USA
Pasquale D'Acunzo, USA
Magdalena Dlugolecka, Poland
Mahmoud Elashiry, USA
Alberta Giovanazzi, The Netherlands
Migara Jayasinghe, Singapore
Kasra Khalaj, Canada
Johanna Matilainen, Finland
Maneea Moubarak, Italy
Nicole Naranjo, USA
Liliia Paniushkina, Germany
Nishant Patel, China
Lital Rachmany, USA
Masaharu Somiya, Japan
Simonides Immanuel Wakker, The Netherlands

 
Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards
Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each oral session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Oral Presentation awardees. Three awardees were selected.
  • Intracellular sorting and EV-mediated release of Y-RNA and Y-RNA binding proteins

    Tom Driedonks, Netherlands

  • Identification of the Wnt Signal Peptide that directs secretion in Extracellular Vesicles

    Uxia Gurriaran Rodriguez, Canada

  • Cell type-specific extracellular vesicles define disease-related protein networks associated with astrocyte activation in Alzheimer’s disease

    Yang You, USA

  • The role of the autophagy adaptor protein PLEKHM1 and exosome release in the leukaemic bone marrow microenvironment  
    Christina Karantanou, Germany

  • Quantitative characterization of Extracellular Vesicle Uptake and Content Delivery within Mammalian Cells
    Emeline Bonsergent, France

  • A novel enzymatic surface functionalization approach for generating engineered extracellular vesicles for targeted drug delivery
    Migara K. Jayasinghe, Singapore

Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards 

Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each poster session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Poster Presentation awardees. Nine awardees were selected

  • Extracellular vesicles from ocular melanoma have pro-fibrotic and pro-angiogenic properties on liver cells

    Kelly CK Coutant, Canada

  • Comprehensive proteomic profiling of plasma extracellular vesicles via SWATH mass spectrometry determines biomarkers for GBM progression

    Susannah M. Hallal, Australia

  • Sex effects on brain extracellular vesicles during aging

    Yohan Kim, USA

  • Extracellular Vesicle-mediated Lenalidomide Resistance in Multiple Myeloma Cells

    Tomofumi Yamamoto, Japan

  • mRNA expression panel analysis of brain-derived extracellular vesicles reveals increased immunological defense-related mRNA in a mouse model of stroke

    Santra Brenna, Germany

  • Non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients anticoagulated with rivaroxaban compared with warfarin exhibit reduced circulating extracellular vesicles with attenuated pro-inflammatory protein signatures

    Luissa Weiss, Ireland 


ISEV2019

Scholarship Winners 

Luz Cumba Garcia
Giulia D'Arrigo
Domenico D'Atri
Olivier de Jong
Ye Feng
Aleksandra Gasecka
Bruno Adonai Gonzalez Nolasco
Dakota Gustafson
Yiyao Huang
Winnie Hui
Zhigang Li
Bo Li
Ekaterina Lisitsyna
Estefanía Lozano-Andrés
Li Min

Rogers Nahui Palomino
Roberta Palmulli
Thanh Kha Phan
Daisuke Sasaki
Maximiliane Schuldner
Yoshihiko Shimazawa
Sebastian Sjoqvist
Ellie Tedford
Zach Troyer
Joeri Tulkens
Marie-Ève Wedge
Anthony Wu
Saigopalakrishna Yerneni
Yueyuan Zhou

Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards
Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each oral session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Oral Presentation awardees. Three awardees were selected.
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Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards 

Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each poster session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Poster Presentation awardees. Nine awardees were selected

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ISEV 2018

OUTSTANDING ORAL PRESENTATION AWARDS

Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each oral session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Oral Presentation awardees. Three awardees were selected.

  • Protective effects of caloric restriction on Alzheimer's Disease progression: Role for choroid plexus derived extracellular vesicles?

    Charysses Vandendriessche

  • None of us is the same as all of us”: nanoscale probing of heterogeneity of stem-cell derived extracellular vesicles by resonance enhanced atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy

    Wojciech Chrzanowski

  • Explosive cell lysis is required for membrane vesicle biogenesis in pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

    Cynthia Whitchurch

OUTSTANDING POSTER PRESENTATION AWARDS 

Selection Criteria: Chairs nominate junior presenters from each poster session. Those who receive the highest consensus scores and positive comments from the Chairs are recognized as Outstanding Poster Presentation awardees. Nine awardees were selected

  • Proteomic analysis of exosomes released from irradiated head and neck cancer cells

    Agata Abramowicz

  • T-lymphocytes are not involved in the preventive effect of Fasciola hepatica EVs in DSS- induced acute ulcerative colitis
    Alicia Galiano

  • Chloride intracellular channel protein 4 (CLIC4) is a serological cancer biomarker released from tumour epithelial cells via extracellular vesicles and required for metastasis
    Vanesa Sanchez

  • Biomarker development and validation for nanoscale flow cytometry of liquid Biopsies

    Desmond Pink

  • Serum-free media supplements carry miRNAs that co- purify with extracellular vesicles

    Martin Auber

  • Investigating the mechanisms of molecular exchange in between retinal neurons

    Aikaterini Kalargyrou

  • Analyzing novel mechanisms involved in tumor- adipose tissue crosstalk during melanoma metastasis: role of secreted exosomes and soluble factors

    Lucia Robado de Lope

  • Characterization of subpopulations of circulating extracellular vesicles by imaging flow cytometry

    Franz Lennard Ricklefs

  • Endothelial Progenitor Cell Exosomes Improve the Outcome of a Endothelial Progenitor Cell Exosomes Improve the Outcome of a Murine Model of Sepsis

    Hongkuan Fan