Virgil Brown Lectureship
2019 Bob Eckel, MD, University of Colorado
2018 Sam Klein, Washington University, St Louis "Metabolic heterogeneity of obesity: what’s fat got to do with it?"
2017 Stan Hazen, Cleveland Clinic "Mechanism-based Inhibition of the Gut Microbial TMAO Pathway for the Treatment of Atherothrombotic Heart Disease"
2016 Ed Fisher, New York University "Macrophages and Smooth Muscle Cells: Chameleons in Atherosclerosis"
2015 Nada Abumrad, Washington University, St. Louis "Dietary Fatty acids and the metabolic syndrome"
2014 Jerry Segrest, University of Alabama, Birmingham "A Brief History of HDL: Have We Learned Anything Substantial?"
2013 Ira Goldberg, Columbia University "Diabetic Heart Disease"
2012 Alan Daugherty, University of Kentucky "The complex roles of the renin angiotensin system in the development of multiple vascular pathologies"
2011 Bruce Freeman, University of Pittsburgh "Electrophilic Fatty Acid Signaling Mediators – New Hammers in the Redox Toolbox"
2010 Larry Rudel, Wake Forest University "ACAT2 and Cholesteryl Oleate: Underappreciated Villains in Coronary Heart Disease"
2009 Henry Ginsberg, Columbia University "Complex Regulation of VLDL Assembly and Secretion: Implications for Triglyceride Lowering Therapies"
Keynote Address
2006 Gabriel Virella, Medical University of South Carolina "Atherosclerosis and the Immune System"
2004 Alan Tall, Columbia University "Learning your ABCs"
2002 Dan Rader, University of Pennsylvania "New approaches to targeting HDL metabolism in treating atherosclerosis"
2001 David Williams, State University of New York "Scavenger Receptor BI: Overview and Recent Developments"
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