EDRN Biomarker Reference Laboratories (BRL) Meeting

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Present:

Andrew Hoofnagle (Chair), Martin Stengelin (Co-chair), Bill Bulman, Daniel Chan, Rob Christenson, Sidney Fu, Jim Herman, William Hsu, Indu Kohaar, Tao Liu, Royce Malnik, Guillermo Marquez, Anu Mathew,  Hua-Jun He, Mike Palazzolo, Harvey Pass, Christos Patriotis, Leopoldo Segal, Steve Skates, Lori Sokoll, Stefani Thomas, James Tsay, Mingyue Wang, Wendy Wang, Lanbo Xiao, Cecilia Yeung, Hui Zhang

Guest: Gabriel Bien-Willner, Palmetto 

Presentation: Dr. Gabriel Bien-Willner, MD, PhD, Palmetto, “Understanding Payors.” Dr. Bien-Willner took questions from the group. 

Next Steps:  

1. ONGOING: Andy Hoofnagle will ask the group for suggestions for future speakers. Suggestions:
   1. David Routenberg from MSD
   2. Yazhen Zhu from UCLA
   3. Hakho Lee from MGH (hlee@mgh.harvard.edu)(exosome purification expert)
   4. Johan Skog ExosomeDx (johan.skog@bio-techne.com) (exosome purification expert)
   5. Andrew Godwin, University of Kansas/Advisory Board of Exokeryx (Method for enriching/isolating EVs/developing novel applications of proen, chip-based technologies to solve the stubborn challenges EV researchers face. 

Next Call: Thursday, April 16th at 12 pm ET/9 am PT.