The next 12th WIMC Keynote Lecture will be given by Dr Rienk Nieuwland from Academisch Medisch Centrum in Amsterdam

Dr Rienk Nieuwland studied Biology in Utrecht and obtained his PhD at the Department of Haematology of the University Medical Centre Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands). Since 2002, he has been working at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, where he is the Principal Investigator and Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Clinical Chemistry. His scientific interests are extracellular vesicles and platelets. He chairs the Scientific Standardization Committee on Vascular Biology of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles and the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, coordinates the European Metrology Research Project METVES (www.metves.eu), was one of the organisers of the 3rd Meeting of International Society of Extracellular Vesicles, and one of the founders of the CANCER-ID project (start 2015).