Dr. DeLisa Fairweather, MD, will speak on "The Yin and Yang of EVs in Myocardial Inflammation"

EVIT Seminar Series

The Extracellular Vesicle Imaging and Therapy (EVIT) working group at the Beckman Institute is pleased to announce the next EVIT seminar, hosted in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic. This partnership aims to foster cross-institutional dialogue and bring fresh, innovative perspectives to the EV research community, bridging engineering, technology, and fundamental biology.

Please join us for our next seminar: 

• Speaker: Prof. DeLisa Fairweather
• Date: Thursday, November 19, 2026
• Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
• Location: Room 3269 - 3rd floor Tower Room, Beckman Institute
• Title: The Yin and Yang of EVs in myocardial inflammation

About the Speaker:
Dr. DeLisa Fairweather is Professor of Medicine and Consultant in the Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine and Immunology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Her translational research focuses on chronic inflammatory diseases, with particular expertise in myocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy, heart failure, autoimmune disease, and sex differences in inflammation. She has studied myocarditis and cardiomyopathy for approximately 30 years and sex differences in inflammatory disease for more than 25 years. Her laboratory also investigates extracellular vesicles as mediators and biomarkers of disease, including their roles in promoting or protecting against inflammatory processes, with the goal of developing improved diagnostics and more individualized therapies. She is also co-founder and co-director of research for Mayo Clinic’s Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic in Florida.