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FLRC Board of Directors

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Gregory Graf, PhD

Board Chair

Professor 

Department of Physiology

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

University of Kentucky

Gregory.Graf@uky.edu

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Mark Brown, PhD

Board Member

Associate Professor

Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Cleveland Clinic

brownm5@ccf.org

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William Virgil Brown, MD

Founder and Board Member

Professor Emeritus

Emory University

wbrow925@gmail.com

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Sean Davidson, PhD

Board Member

Professor, Vice Chair of Research

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Metabolic Diseases Institute

University of Cincinnati

Sean.Davidson@UC.edu

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Scott Gordon, PhD

Board Member

Assistant Professor

Department of Physiology 

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

University of Kentucky

Scott.Gordon@uky.edu

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Tanya Graf

Executive Director

Director of Administration

Department of Physiology

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

University of Kentucky

Tanya.Graf@uky.edu

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Liza Makowski, PhD

Board Member

Professor 

Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

liza.makowski@uthsc.edu

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Saskia Neher, PhD

Chair, 2022 FLRC Conference

Associate Professor 

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
neher@email.unc.edu

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Alan Remaley, MD, PhD

Board Member

Senior Investigator and Chief, Lipoprotein Metabolism Section

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

National Institutes of Health

aremaley1@mail.nih.gov

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John Stafford, MD, PhD

Chair, 2023 FLRC Conference

Associate Professor of Medicine

Vanderbilt University

john.stafford@vanderbilt.edu

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Ryan Temel, PhD

Board Member

Associate Professor
Department of Phsyiology
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

University of Kentucky

Ryan.Temel@uky.edu

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Kasey Vickers, PhD

Board Member

Associate Professor

Medicine
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Vanderbilt University

kasey.c.vickers@vanderbilt.edu

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Laura Woolett, PhD

Board Member

Professor

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Metabolic Disease Institute University of Cincinnati

woollela@ucmail.uc.edu

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Ze Zheng, PhD

Chair, 2025 FLRC Conference

Assistant Professor

Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin

Assistant Investigator

Blood Research Institute, Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin

zzheng@mcw.edu

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