A/Prof Ivan Poon is a NHMRC EL2 Investigator Fellow at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS), Head of the Apoptotic Cell Disassembly and Clearance Laboratory, and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Extracellular Vesicles. His laboratory studies how and why dying cells fragment into apoptotic bodies during apoptosis. His team has defined (i) key aspects in the molecular machinery that regulate this disassembly process during cell death, (ii) the importance of this process in disease settings (e.g. during viral infection), and (iii) identified novel drugs that target this process.