The Board of Directors for the Fredrickson Lipid Research Conference plans to host the 2021 conference on September 9-11 in person in Lexington, KY.  The safety of attendees is our top priority.  The board will continue to monitor developments in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and will make a final decision whether to hold the meeting in person

by July 1, 2021.

Don S. Fredrickson Lipid Research Conference

(formerly the South East Lipid Research Conference)

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            Virgil Brown Lecture

            Ruth McPherson, MD, PhD, FRCPC

                University of Ottawa Heart Institute

                “GWAS for CAD: From Locus to Function”

 

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            Keynote Lecture

            Mahmood Hussain, PhD

                New York University 

                “Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein:

                Control of Plasma and Tissue Lipids, Structure

                Function Analysis and Adipose-Specific Role”

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            Meeting Chair

            Scott Gordon, PhD

                Assistant Professor of Physiology

                University of Kentucky

Future Fredrickson Conference Sites

2022 University of North Carolina & Duke University 

2023 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN