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The Steering Committee

ICBL is governed by ~18 members — a President, Vice-President, Secretary, PR Officer, plus Ordinary, Advisory, and Corresponding members. All serve three-year terms without remuneration.

Officers

Markus R. Wenk
President

Prof. Markus R. Wenk

Hamad Bin Khalifa University — Dean, College of Health and Life Sciences

Doha, QATAR

President until 31.12.2028
Katrin Watschinger
Vice President

Prof. Katrin Watschinger

Medical University of Innsbruck — Institute of Molecular Biochemistry, Biocenter · Ether Lipid Metabolism Research Group

Innsbruck, AUSTRIA

+43 512 9003 70344
Vice-President until 31.12.2028
Maurizio Crestani
Secretary

Prof. Maurizio Crestani

Giovanni Galli Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Metabolism — Mass Spectrometry · Rodolfo Paoletti Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences (DiSFeB) · Università degli Studi di Milano

Via Balzaretti 9 20133 Milano, ITALY

+39 02 50318393/1 · Fax +39 02 50318391
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Christian Wolfrum
PR Officer

Prof. Christian Wolfrum

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — Provost

50 Nanyang Avenue SINGAPORE

Re-elected until 31.12.2028

Ordinary Members

Member

Gwendolyn Barceló-Coblijn, Ph.D.

Fundació Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa) — Lipids in Human Pathology · Hospital Universitari Son Espases

Palma, Balearic Islands, SPAIN

ICBL 2023
Member

Prof. Markus Keller

Medical University of Innsbruck — Institute of Human Genetics

Innsbruck, AUSTRIA

ICBL 2025

Advisory Members

Agnieszka Dobrzyń
Past-President

Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyń

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Warsaw, POLAND

Past-President — elected until 31.12.2028
George Carman
Member

George M. Carman, Ph.D.

Rutgers University — Rutgers Center for Lipid Research (Board of Governors Professor & Director)

61 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

+1 848 932 0267
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Michel Lagarde
Member

Prof. Michel Lagarde

INSERM / INSA-Lyon — UMR 870, IMBL

Bldg Louis Pasteur, 20 avenue Albert Einstein F-69621 Villeurbanne, FRANCE

+33 72 438 240 · Fax +33 72 438 524
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Catherine Mounier
Member

Prof. Catherine Mounier

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) — Department of Biological Sciences

141, Avenue du Président-Kennedy Montréal (Québec) H2X 1Y4, CANADA

+1 514 987 3000 ext 8912
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Fritz Spener
Member

Prof. Fritz Spener

University of Graz — Department of Molecular Biosciences

Heinrichstrasse 31 8010 Graz, AUSTRIA

+43 316 380 5501 · Fax +43 316 380 9858
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Gabor Joseph Tigyi
Member

Prof. Gabor Joseph Tigyi

University of Tennessee Health Science Center — Department of Physiology (Harriet Van Vleet Professor and Chair)

894 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163, USA

+1 901 448 4793 · Fax +1 901 448 7126
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
László Vigh
Member

Prof. László Vigh

Hungarian Academy of Sciences — Biological Research Center, Institute of Biochemistry

62 Temesvári krt., P.O. Box 521 H-6701 Szeged, HUNGARY

+36 62 432048
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Takehiko Yokomizo
Member

Prof. Takehiko Yokomizo

Juntendo University School of Medicine — Department of Biochemistry

2-1-1 Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8421, JAPAN

+81 3 5802 1030 · Fax +81 3 5802 5889
Re-elected until 31.12.2028

Corresponding Members

Makoto Arita
Member

Prof. Makoto Arita

Keio University — Faculty of Pharmacy, Division of Physiological Chemistry and Metabolism

1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8512, JAPAN

Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Christian Eggeling
Member

Prof. Christian Eggeling

Friedrich Schiller University Jena — Institute of Applied Optics and Biophysics

Jena, GERMANY

Re-elected until 31.12.2028
J.B. (Bernd) Helms
Member

Prof. J.B. (Bernd) Helms

Utrecht University — Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Cell Biology, Metabolism & Cancer Metabolism

Nieuw Gildestein Yalelaan 2, Room 217 3584 CM Utrecht, NETHERLANDS

+31 30 253 5375
Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Member

Prof. Jae Ho Kim

Pusan National University School of Medicine — Department of Physiology

Yangsan, KOREA

Elected until 31.12.2028
Member

Prof. Wen-Lung (Maverick) Ma

China Medical University — Sex Hormone Research Center, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences

Taichung, TAIWAN

Elected until 31.12.2028
Valerie O'Donnell
Member

Prof. Valerie O'Donnell

Cardiff University — Systems Immunity Research Institute, School of Medicine

Cardiff, UNITED KINGDOM

Re-elected until 31.12.2028
Harini Sampath
Member

Harini Sampath, Ph.D.

Rutgers University — Department of Nutritional Sciences · New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health

61 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

+1 848 932 0266
Re-elected until 31.12.2028

Early Career Researchers

Denise Kummer
Early Career Representative

Denise Kummer

Medical University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, AUSTRIA

TBC
Early Career Representative

Ilaria Dorigatti

Medical University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, AUSTRIA

TBC