Philip Askenase Australasia Extracellular Vesicles Conference 2017

Philip Askenase

Dr Askenase played basketball at Brown University and then emerged as a Junior Phi Beta Kappa scholar, then on to Yale Medical School, Medicine Residency in at the Boston City Hospital Harvard unit, fellowships at the National institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and then in London,England. Returning to Yale Medical School he ecame a tenured Professor in Medicine and the Chief of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. During more than a 50 year career, his research uncovered the late phase inflammation component of asthma that is susceptible to steroid treatment, and discovered the essential roles of allergy mechanisms in responses to parasites and in general underlying T cell mediated immunity. In recent work he has demonstrated the power of previously unknown nano vesicle exosomes to specifically transfer gene altering RNAs between cells in allergy, immunity and treatment of injuries of the central nervous system. Clinically, he founded the AIDs clinic at Yale and participated in the discovery of Lyme Disease.