Aslan (Mehdi) Dehghani, PhD

Scientist/Bioengineer for Extracellular Vesicles Applications, Corporate Research, Sartorius Stedim North America

Aslan Dehghani is a scientist/bioengineer with 8 years of experience in the field of Extracellular Vesicles (EVs). He leads all the efforts around EVs at Sartorius Stedim North America by developing new technologies and solutions for upstream and downstream processing as well characterization of EVs from different sources such as stem cells and other biofluids. Before joining Sartorius Stedim North America, Aslan completed his Ph.D. degree from Rochester Institute of Technology focusing on purification, characterization and therapeutic potentials of EVs. During his Ph.D., His research was focused on overcoming the key challenges of EVs (exosomes) bioprocessing, particularly analytical quantification, and purification. This includes the design of a novel microfluidic device for ultrathin membrane filtration of stem cell derived exosomes. This has helped him to become an expert in microfluidic tool design and engineering to deliver specific physical and biological properties of cell and vesicle-based systems. Additionally, for the therapeutic evaluation of exosomes: Aslan implemented co-culture models for studying the therapeutic potentials of stem cells derived exosomes on fibroblasts wound recovery. He has published over 7 peer reviewed articles on EVs bioprocessing, invited book chapter and has been an invited speaker to the international society of extracellular vesicles (ISEV2020) and has been honored the “Young Investigator of the Year Award” in 2020.