Monday, August 10, 2026

***All talks will be held in the Peak 5 Conference Room***

08:00 - 08:10 AM Welcome and Opening Kern Lecture - Moshe Levi, MD, President, Kern Lipid Conference, Georgetown University, Jonathan Brestoff, MD, PhD, President, Kern Lipid Conference, Washington University in St. Louis

08:10 - 08:55 AM Opening Kern Lecture: “Reversing Atherosclerosis: Lipids, Immunity, and Cellular Fate” - Kathryn Moore, PhD, NYU

Session 1: Peripheral Lipids and Neurodegenerative Disease

08:55 - 09:25 AM “The Many Ways Peripheral Lipoproteins Affect the Brain” - Cheryl Wellington, PhD, University of British Columbia

09:25 - 09:50 AM “Activating Lipoprotein Lipase with ApoC‑II Mimetic Peptides” - Kimberley Bruce, PhD, University Colorado

09:50 - 10:15 AM Coffee Break

Session 2: Causative Factors in Hyperlipidemia

10:15 - 10:20 AM Scott Grundy Lecture Introduction - Jay Horton, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

10:20 - 10:50 AM Scott Grundy Lecture: “Adipokines, Fibrosis, and the Future of Cardiorenal Metabolic Medicine” - Philipp Scherer, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

10:50 - 11:20 AM “GIPR agonism regulates adipocyte and whole body lipid metabolism in the context of GLP-1 and GCG” - William Roell, PhD, Eli Lilly and Company

11:20 - 11:30 AM Nanolive-sponsored short talk: “From Morphology to Function: Real-Time Label-Free Analysis of Lipids and Mitochondria in Live Cells” - Matthias Haeffner, Field Application Scientist, Nanolive

11:30 - 11:35 AM Introduction and Presentation of the Roger Davis Award Lecture - Robert H. Eckel, MD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

11:35 - 12:00 PM Roger Davis Award Lecture - “Elevated FGF21 from Hepatic MetAP2 Deletion is Associated with Selective Ceramide Reduction in Visceral Fat” - Christy Gliniak, PhD, Rutgers University

12:00 - 12:30 PM Lightning Talks - Round 1

12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch - Coppertop

01:30 - 4:00 PM Afternoon Break

Session 3: Advances in Lipoproteins

04:00 - 04:30 PM “Decoding Human Brain Lipoproteins in Neurodegeneration” - John Melchior, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

04:30 - 05:00 PM “Emerging Technologies Provide New Insight into Lipoprotein Metabolism” - Saskia Neher, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

05:00 - 05:15 PM Short Talk: “GPR182 is a Lipoprotein Receptor for Dietary Fat Absorption” - Zhiwei Sun, MD, University of Colorado

05:15 - 05:45 PM Lightning Talks - Round 2

Poster Session & Reception

06:15 – 08:00 PM