The 4th annual American Society for Intercellular Communication (ASIC) meeting, 2024 conference report

The fourth annual meeting of the American Society for Intercellular Communication (ASIC) was held in Baltimore, Maryland, from October 17th-19th, 2024, and featured groundbreaking findings that are pushing the field of extracellular vesicles (EVs).Highlights included the discovery of a new pathway for selective RNA loading into EVs, new evidence linking EVs to neuroinflammation, cancer progression, and immune suppression, and compelling demonstrations of their potential in brain-targeted delivery, tissue repair, and cancer immunotherapy.Collectively, these advances underscore EVs as both key drivers of disease and powerful tools for next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics.The meeting drew over 130 participants and was supported by twelve sponsors, including Caerus, Ceres Nano, Kinetic River, Particle Metrix, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Alpha Nano Tech, Spectradyne, Univercells Technologies, Unchained Labs, MetvareBio, USA Scientific, and Kinetic River.The three-day program featured fifty oral presentations, an NIH Grant Writing Workshop designed for early-career investigators and trainees, and an NIH roundtable with six program officers.Additionally, a poster session was held on the evening of the second day, showcasing twenty-eight posters.