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Introduction

The Amsterdam Vesicle Center embodies a collaboration between the Department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics and the Laboratory of Experimental Clinical Chemistry of the Amsterdam University Medical Center.

By combining biological, chemical, metrological and physical knowledge and expertise, we develop novel technologies to study the presence and biological function of extracellular vesicles in health and disease, with the goal to use extracellular vesicles as clinical biomarkers.

Latest articles

Automated cryo-EM and supervised machine learning enable reproducible characterization of extracellular vesicles and co-isolating particles by Agustin Enciso-Martinez et al.

Traceable refractive index measurements of liquids to standardize extracellular vesicle flow cytometry by Martine Kuiper et al.

Refractive index of milk fat globules and extracellular vesicles in human milk by Johanna R. de Wolf et al.

Particle size distribution and concentration of Intralipid^® 20% by Mona Shahsavari et al.

Red blood cell-derived transglutaminase-2 influences thrombus formation by Naoual Ouazzani Chahdi et al.

News

Reproducibility of EV research: same sample, different day

On October 25^th, Rienk Nieuwland gave a presentation on Reproducibility of EV research: same sample, different day at the Chinese Society For Extracellular Vesicles in Wuhan, China.

Cover image!

Figure 2 of Hanna de Wolf et al. on the refractive index of milk fat globules and extracellular vesicles in human milk features as the cover image of Biophotonics Discovery 3 (1).

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Agenda

April 9^th, 2026: Mendel Engelaer will give a presentation about "Precision and sensitivity of nanoparticle sizing techniques" at the Dutch Flow Group meeting in Groningen, The Netherlands

April 17^th to 19^th, 2026: EVcount at Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine 2026 in Leuven, Belgium

April 22^nd, 2026: Rienk Nieuwland will give a presentation about "Sample collection and pre-analytics" at the educational day of ISEV in San Juan, Puerto Rico

July 6^th to 10^th, 2026: EV Flow Cytometry Summer School in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Disclaimer

This is the unofficial but only website of the "Amsterdam Vesicle Center". Fun fact: also our name and logo are unofficial.