Jan Lotvall MD, PhD

Jan Lötvall, M.D., Ph.D., joined Codiak in 2016 from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he has served as Professor of Allergy since 2002, and as Chairman of the Krefting Research Centre.In May 2016 Dr. Lotvall completed his term as the first elected president of the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), which he helped start in 2011. Dr. Lötvall is a specialist in clinical pharmacology as well as clinical allergy. He has over the last ten years been a pioneer in studies of the biological function of exosomes and other extracellular vesicles, and their natural ability of transferring RNA between cells. Dr. Lötvall published the first study documenting the ability of exosomes to send functional RNA into cells in 2007 in Nature Cell Biology. In 2013 he received the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) Special Achievement Award for this discovery and for his role in developing the ISEV community.