International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy statement on extracellular vesicles from mesenchymal stromal cells and other cells: considerations for potential therapeutic agents to suppress coronavirus disease-19

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ² Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
• ³ Department of Otolaryngology, Stem Cell Program, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
• ⁴ REMAR-IVECAT Group, Health Science Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Can Ruti Campus, and Nephrology Service, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain.
• ⁵ Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of Children and Adults, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.
• ⁸ Exosomes Laboratory, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de enfermedades hepáticas y digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.
• ⁹ GMP Unit and EV-TT Transfer Center, Spinal Cord Injury & Tissue Regeneration Center Salzburg (SCI-TReCS), Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), Salzburg, Austria.
• ¹⁰ La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
• ¹¹ School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹² Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht and Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• ¹³ Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash University and The Ritchie Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹⁵ Krefting Research Centre, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• ¹⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹⁷ ICREC Research Program, Health Science Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Can Ruti Campus, and Cardiology Service, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain.
• ¹⁸ Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Laboratory of Experimental Clinical Chemistry, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Vesicle Observation Center, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ²⁰ Biotherapeutics, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Hertfordshire, UK.
• ²¹ School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
• ²² Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ²³ Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida, USA.
• ²⁴ Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) and Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute Surveillance, Vienna, Austria.
• ²⁵ Department of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital, Salzburger Landeskliniken GesmbH (SALK), Salzburg, Austria; GMP Unit, Spinal Cord Injury & Tissue Regeneration Centre Salzburg (SCI-TReCS), Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), Salzburg, Austria.
• ²⁶ Section Tissue Engineering and Cell Therapeutics, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Langen, Germany.
• ²⁷ Institut Curie/INSERM U932/PSL Research University, Paris, France.
• ²⁸ Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• ²⁹ Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ³⁰ Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ³¹ Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].