An Hendrix is professor at Ghent University and group leader at Cancer Research Institute Ghent in Belgium. She obtained a Master of Science in Bioscience Engineering (2005) and a PhD in Health Sciences (2010). The overarching goal of her research group is to implement this supporting ecosystem to study the origin, fate and function of EV in the human body and exploit this know-how for the development of biomarker and therapeutic applications.An Hendrix is organizer of the EMBO/EMBL practical course “Extracellular vesicles: from biology to biomedical applications”, founder and president of BESEV, interim executive chair of Science and Journals for International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) and executive board member of European Liquid Biopsy Society (ELBS). During the annual ISEV meeting (2021) she was awarded the Early/Mid-Career Investigator award for her seminal work on EVs providing a supportive ecosystem for their clinical application, including development of the EV-TRACK knowledgebase, SOP for the analysis of EVs in liquid biopsies and reference materials.