Relevance of 3D cell culture in extracellular vesicle research

Presenter: Dr. Pia R-M Siljander, University of Helsinki / Finnish Extracellular Vesicle Society | UPM Biomedicals 8th Annual Conference, 2022

Pia R-M Siljander studied biochemistry during her Masters at the University of Helsinki and at the Wihuri Research Institute during her PhD with focus on collagen receptor interplay in platelet activation, she started her ongoing work on microparticles, a subset of extracellular vesicles (EVs). After PhD completion, she did a Postdoc at the University of Cambridge, U.K. For more than 15 years, she has been working at the University of Helsinki, now as a senior university lecturer at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences research program. As the principal investigator of EV research group from 2011-, her continuing interest is to understand the biophysical and functional versatility of platelet and cancer EVs and to develop the methodologies in the EV field. The latter manifested in the establishment of the world’s first extracellular core facility for EVs in 2016. Her projects are driven both academically and through industry-collaboration. She is the vice president of the Finnish Extracellular Vesicle Society (FISEV).