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Photos and biographies of these individuals will be added here along with a brief description of the award as they become available. The Alex Leaf Award presentation and lecture will
open the meeting and the Early Career Award presentation and lecture will close the meeting (see link to Program Overview).
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Presenting: Sunday, May 18th - 8:15am-9:45am
Lecture Title: AA Cytochrome P450 Pathway: A New Target for Omega-3 Fatty Acids |
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Art Spector, MD
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA (USA) |
Art Spector received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and then a Research Medical Officer at the National Heart Institute,
NIH, where he began studies on the transport of fatty acid by plasma albumin and the mechanism of fatty acid utilization by mammalian cells under the direction of Dr. Daniel Steinberg.
In 1968, Art joined the faculty of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and has continued research on fatty acids and diseases of lipid metabolism for the past 40 years.
His recent work involves lipid mediators produced from arachidonic acid by the cytochrome P450 pathway, and DHA metabolism in neural cells.
Art has published more than 230 original papers, 65 chapters and review articles, and 2 monographs dealing with various aspects of lipid metabolism.
He has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Lipids, Cancer Research, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Art also has been Associate Editor of Arteriosclerosis,
Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB), and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Lipid Research (JLR). In addition to remaining on the Boards of ATVB and JLR,
he presently serves on the Advisory Board of Progress in Lipid Research, and on the Editorial Boards of Prostaglandins and other Lipid Mediators,
and Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Art has received a number of honors during his academic career. These include a Research Career Development Award from NIH, election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation,
presentation of the van Deenen lecture at ICBL, and a Special Recognition Award from the ATVB Council, AHA. He was a member of the Panel of the NIH Consensus Development Conference on
Cholesterol that initiated the guidelines for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia in the United States. Furthermore, he served on the Metabolism Study Section of NIH and has
Chaired the Council on Arteriosclerosis, AHA, Program Projects Committee B of NHLBI, Basic Sciences Merit Review Board of the U.S. Veterans Administration;
Biomedical Advisory Committee of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities; Advisory Board of the Deuel Conference on Lipids, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wake
Forest and Brigham and Women’s Botanical Lipids Center.
Art has served ISSFAL since its inception. He has been a member of the Board of Directors, Editor of the Newsletter, and for a 9-year period beginning in 1997, he served as
President-Elect, President and Past-President.
After stints as Acting Head of Pharmacology and subsequently of Biochemistry at Iowa, Art was awarded a University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professorship in 1999,
and he reached the status of Professor Emeritus in August 2007.
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Presenting: Thursday, May 22nd - 1:30pm-3:00pm
Lecture Title: Regulation of Brain PUFA Uptake and Turnover |
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Richard P Bazinet, PhD
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON Canada |
Richard received his BSc from the University of Western Ontario in 1998 and his PhD from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Stephen Cunnane in 2003.
Richard then trained as a post-doctoral fellow in Stanley Rapoport's laboratory in the Brain Physiology and Metabolism Section of the National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health. In October 2007, Richard was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences,
Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Richard's research program focuses on examining the mechanisms involved in the uptake and utilization of fatty acids by the brain.
His current studies are addressing the regulation of arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids by neuroinflammation and the mechanisms by which the brain maintains its unique
polyunsaturated fatty acid composition. Richard also has collaborations in pharmacology, psychiatry and anthropology.
Richard has published over 30 original articles and several reviews in the area of brain fatty acid metabolism.
He is currently an Associate Editor for Lipids and sits on the Editorial Board of Prostaglandins,
Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids and is an International Contributing Editor for the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
Richard was awarded several studentships during his graduate studies, followed by post-doctoral fellowships from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and
the National Institutes of Health. Richard has been a member of ISSFAL since 2002, he served as member of the planning committee for the Montreal meeting and he
has received student awards from the society in the past.
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