EAS Joint sessions with ESC and IAS

M. John Chapman is Research Professor at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, and Director Emeritus of the National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Pitié-Salpétrière University Hospital, Paris, France. Together with Professor Henry Ginsberg (University of Columbia, New York, USA) he has led the EAS Consensus Panel initiative (for full details of the Consensus Panel papers see https://www.eas-society.org/page/consensus_papers ). Professor Chapman undertook his undergraduate studies at Aberdeen University and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. He subsequently trained in cardiovascular lipidology at the Cardiovascular Research Institute of the University of California Medical Center, and the Gladstone Foundation for Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, USA. He is the recipient of the 2014 European Lipid Science Award and the 2015 Antonio M. Gotto Jr Prize for Atherosclerosis Research from the International Atherosclerosis Society. Present research interests include the relationship of the lipidome and proteome to the functionality of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles in health and cardiometabolic disease, and on the development of new anti-atherosclerotic therapeutics targeted to HDL.