Dylan Burger (PhD, ISHF) is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences). He holds a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Western Ontario and completed postdoctoral studies with Drs. Rhian Touyz and Kevin Burns at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. His independent research program focuses on understanding the molecular underpinnings of diabetes and hypertension and their associated renal complications. In particular, he has been active in the study of extracellular vesicles as markers and mediators of vascular and renal injury for more than 10 years. He has authored more than 100 manuscripts and has received several awards, including the 2016 Canadian Society of Nephrology New Investigator Lectureship and the 2018 University of Ottawa Department of Medicine PhD Scientist Award. He is the current Chair of Communications for the International Society of Hypertension. Dr. Burger is a founding member of The Lancet Commission on Hypertension and Associate Editor for the European Heart Journal and the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.