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Plenary lecture I

Grand Ballroom A+B(3F), Friday, September 11th, 11:30-12:20 Chairperson: Hong-Seog Seo

	Børge G. Nordestgaard University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Disease
Prof. Nordestgaard is a Chief Physician in Clinical Biochemistry at Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark and Professor in Genetic Epidemiology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has for more than 25 years continued his interest in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, and has written extensively on these conditions in medical textbooks, original articles and in consensus statements. He is chairing the Copenhagen General Population Study and is also a steering committee member of the Copenhagen City Heart Study, the JUPITER trial, and the High Risk Plaque Initiative. In this plenary session of ICLA 2015, Prof. Nordestgaard will give us a comprehensive lecture on the importance of triglycerides, remnant cholesterol or triglyceride-rich lipoproteins as an additional cause of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality based on recent evidences and his own research results, entitled, "Triglycerides and Cardiovascular Disease".

Plenary lecture 2

Grand Ballroom A+B(3F), Saturday, September 12th, 11:00-11:50 Chairperson: Kyong Soo Park

	Stefan Offermanns Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany	Vascular and Metabolic GPCR-mediated Signaling – Relevance for Atherosclerosis Progression
Prof. Stefan Offermanns held the Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) from 2000 to 2009. Since 2008 he is director at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (Bad Nauheim, Germany) and a professor at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. He has combined basic science with clinically oriented research to study the role of various receptor systems and downstream signaling mechanisms in the cardiovascular and metabolic system as well as in cancer. In this plenary session of ICLA 2015, Prof. Offerman will give us a comprehensive lecture on the role of short chain fatty acid, lactate and ketone body receptors in the regulation of atherosclerosis and metabolic diseases working through G-protein-coupled receptors, entitled "Vascular and Metabolic GPCR-mediated Signaling - Relevance for Atherosclerosis Progression".