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Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids
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Y. Peng Loh

Senior Investigator, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Dr. Yoke Peng Loh is an American biochemist and molecular
biologist serving as Senior Investigator and Head of the Section
on Cellular Neurobiology in the Laboratory of Developmental
Neurobiology at NICHD, NIH. She is also the Editor-in-Chief
of Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nuclear Acids and
serves on several Editorial Boards.

Her research focuses on the cell biology of endocrine and neuroendocrine cells, particularly the
biosynthesis and intracellular trafficking of peptide hormones, neuropeptides, and their processing
enzymes. Her group also studies the regulation of dense-core secretory granule biogenesis, the
physiological roles of carboxypeptidase E (CPE) and its isoforms, and bioactive peptides derived from
chromogranin A.

Dr. Loh has received numerous accolades, including the NIH Director’s Award, the Public Health
Superior Service Award, the NIH Director’s Award for Mentoring, the FASEB Award for Excellence in
Science, and the Women in Endocrinology Mentor Award. She has authored more than 200 scientific
publications in top-tier journals such as Cell, Nature Medicine, JAMA, Neuron, Molecular Psychiatry,
and PNAS.