Event
BIOE Seminar: Biomedical Engineering Foundations for Decoding Tumor Extracellular Vesicle Cargo
Friday, February 20, 2026
9:00 a.m.
A. James Clark Hall, Room #2121
Ian White
ianwhite@umd.edu
Jennifer Jones
National Cancer Institute
Jennifer C. Jones, MD, PhD, is both a basic researcher—focused on decoding the cargo of tumor and immune extracellular vesicles—and a clinical Radiation Oncologist at the National Cancer Institute. Her work draws on an undergraduate foundation in Complex Adaptive Systems (Princeton University), graduate and postdoctoral training in cancer biology, immunology, and genetics (Stanford University), and two decades of building bridges across academic disciplines. Her Translational Nanobiology Section has developed robust methods to characterize extracellular vesicles (EVs) in liquid biopsies, with the goal of leveraging real-time, multidimensional information about tumor progression and treatment response. Her central hypothesis: the cargo of different EV populations reflects underlying pathophysiology in the cells that produce them—creating a molecular lexicon that can be read to understand disease. Her February 20 lecture, "Biomedical Engineering Foundations for Decoding Tumor Extracellular Vesicle Cargo," will be an interactive presentation showing how building better tools paves the way to exploring new biological horizons.
