Speaker

SPEAKERS

Prof. Andreas Möller

AFFILIATION:

Global STEM Professor of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Director, JC Lab of Personalised Cancer Medicine, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Hong Kong

POSITION TITLE:

Professor/Director

EDUCATION/TRAINING:


Post-doc in Cancer Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Australia

Post-doc in Cancer Research, University of Berne, Switzerland

Dr rer nat in Cancer Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ); University of Hamburg, Germany

Diplom Biologe (B.Sc.Honours equivalent) in Plant Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany


HONORS:


2024-present Officer at Board of Directors, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), Executive Chair of Meetings and Programs

2022-2024 Board of Directors, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), Member-at-Large

2019-present Executive Board Member, Asian Pacific Societies for Extracellular Vesicles (APSEV)

2024-present Co-Organizer, 3rd Asia-Pacific Societies of Extracellular Vesicle meeting, Guangzhou, China

2024-present International Organizing Committee, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles 2025 annual conference, Vienna, Austria

2023-2024 International Organizing Committee, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles 2024 annual conference, Melbourne, Australia

2023 International Organizing Committee, ISEV workshop ‘EV-based biomarkers: Commercialisation and Clinical Implementation’, October 2023, Aalborg, Denmark

2023 Co-Organizer, 2nd Asia-Pacific Societies of Extracellular Vesicle meeting, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 Conference Chair, Program Director, 2022 Australia-New Zealand Society of Extracellular Vesicle conference, Gold Coast, Australia

2021 International Organizing Committee, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles annual conference, France (virtual)

2021 Conference Chair, Program Director, 2021 Australia-New Zealand Society of Extracellular Vesicle conference (virtual)

2020-2023 Cancer Program Board, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia

2019-2021 Guest Editor, Cells

2019 Co-Organizer, Program Chair, Inaugural Asian Pacific Societies for Extracellular Vesicles (APSEV), Jeju, South Korea

2019 Co-Organizer, 6th Thomas Ashworth CTC & Liquid Biopsy Symposium, Australia

2003-present Peer Reviewer, including Nature, Nature Cancer, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Science Translational Medicine, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Advanced Science


RESEARCH INTERESTS:


The program of Prof Möller provides understanding of cancer biology, and clinical and commercial translation across three kea areas: 1) the first demonstration that cancer hypoxia is a key driver of metastasis-permissive changes in distant organs (termed pre-metastatic niche), 2) defining small extracellular vesicles (sEVs, also called exosomes) as main mediators of these pro-metastatic processes, and 3) developing blood-based, sEVcontained biomarker to diagnose cancer, suggest therapeutic interventions and prognosticate therapeutic responses in patients.


PUBLICATIONS:


1. Andreas Möller, Richard Lobb; “The evolving translational potential of small extracellular vesicles in cancer” Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 Dec;20(12):697-709 [IF 69.8, cited 357]

2. Richard J. Lobb, Kekoolani S. Visan, Li-Ying Wu, Emma L. Norris, Marcus L. Hastie, Sarah Everitt, Ian A. Yang, Rayleen V. Bowman, Shankar Siva, Jill E. Larsen, Jeffrey J. Gorman, Michael MacManus, Antoine Leimgruber, Kwun M. Fong, Andreas Möller; “An epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition induced extracellular vesicle prognostic signature in non-small cell lung cancer”; Communications Biology. 2023 Jan 18;6(1):68.doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04350-4.[IF 6.6, cited 8]

3. Kekoolani S Visan, Richard J Lobb, Sunyoung Ham, Luize G Lima, Carlos Palma, Chai Pei Zhi Edna, Li-Ying Wu, Harsha Gowda, Keshava K. Datta, Gunter Hartel, Carlos Salomon, Andreas Möller; “Comparative analysis of tangential flow filtration and ultracentrifugation, both combined with subsequent size exclusion chromatography, for the isolation of small extracellular vesicles”; Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2022, Sep;11(9):e12266. doi: 10.1002/jev2.12266 [IF 17.5, cited 49]

4. Luize G Lima, Sunyoung Ham, Hyunku Shin, Edna P Z Chai, Erica S H Lek, Richard J Lobb, Alexandra F Müller, Suresh Mathivanan, Belinda Yeo, Yeonho Choi, Belinda S Parker, Andreas Möller; “Tumor microenvironmental cytokines bound to cancer-derived exosomes determine specific uptake by cytokine receptor-expressing cells and alter biodistribution”; Nature Communications, 2021 Jun 10;12(1):3543 [IF 17.7, cited 84]

5. Shu Wen Wen, Luize G Lima, Richard J Lobb, Emma L Norris, Marcus L Hastie, Sophie Krumeich, Andreas Möller; “Breast cancer-derived exosomes reflect the cell-of-origin phenotype”, Proteomics. 2019 Apr;19(8):e1800180. [IF 5.4, cited 103]

6. Sunyoung Ham, Luize G Lima, Chai Pei Zhi Edna, Alexandra Müller, Richard J Lobb, Sophie Krumeich, Shu Wen Wen, Adrian P Wiegmans, Andreas Möller; “Breast cancer-derived exosomes alter macrophage polarization via gp130/STAT3 signaling”; Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 May 8;9:871 [IF 8.8, cited 153]