Codiak Biosciences, Inc. announced the appointment of Jan Lötvall, M.D., Ph.D., as Chief Scientist. As a member of the executive leadership team, Dr. Lötvall will report to Douglas E. Williams, Ph.D., President and CEO, and will continue his pioneering research on the potential of exosomes for therapeutic uses. He will begin his new position this summer, working on a consulting basis during his relocation from Gothenburg, Sweden. Dr. Lötvall joins Codiak from Göteborg University, Sweden, where he has served as professor of Allergy since 2002, and as chairman of the Krefting Research Centre. This month he also completed his term as the first elected President of the International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), which he helped start in 2011.