**Participating Institutions and Corporations**

Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.

Avanti Polar Lipids, Inc., Alabaster, Ala.

Boston University School of Medicine, Boston

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Harvard Medical School, Boston

Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Co.

Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.

University of California, Irvine

University of California, San Diego

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver

University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich.

University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

**Research Directors**

H. Alex Brown, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville,
Tenn.; Glycerophospholipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Edward Dennis, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego;
Eicosanoids/Fatty Acids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Christopher Glass, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego;
Cell Biology Focus Area

Alfred Merrill, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta;
Sphingolipids/Glycosphingolipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Robert Murphy, Ph.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center;
Neutral Lipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Christian Raetz, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Durham,
N.C.; Structural Lipidomics/Other Lipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

David Russell, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas; Sterols Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Walter Shaw, Ph.D., Avanti Polar Lipids, Inc., Alabaster, Ala.; Lipid
Standards and Production Chemistry, Lipid Synthesis and Characterization
Focus Area

Shankar Subramaniam, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego;
Informatics Focus Area

Michael VanNieuwenhze, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; Novel
Lipid Synthetic Design, Lipid Synthesis and Characterization Focus Area

Steven White, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; Novel Lipid
Biophysical Characterization, Lipid Synthesis and Characterization Focus
Area

Joseph Witztum, M.D., University of California, San Diego; Oxidized
Lipids in Macrophages, Lipidomics Focus Area

**Other Key Participating Researchers**

Dale Boger, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.; Novel
Lipid Synthetic Design, Lipid Synthesis and Characterization Focus Area

Michael Brown, M.D.,University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas; Sterols Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Lewis Cantley, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston;
Glycerophospholipids Core., Lipidomics Focus Area

Catherine Costello, Ph.D., Boston University School of Medicine, Boston;
Lipid Detection and Quantitation Focus Area

Camille Falck, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas; Lipid Standards and Production Chemistry, Lipid Synthesis and
Characterization Focus Area

Joseph Goldstein, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas; Sterols Core

Yusuf Hannun, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston,
S.C. Sphingolipids/Glycosphingolipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Peter Henson, Ph.D., National Jewish Medical and Research Center,
Denver, Co.; Cell Biology Focus Area

Bruce Jacobson, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego;
Administrative Focus Area

Lawrence Marnett, Ph.D., Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology,
Nashville, Tenn.; Eicosanoids/Fatty Acids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Volker Nowotny, Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor,
Mich.; Informatics Focus Area

Bernhard Palsson, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego;
Informatics Focus Area

Dale Poulter, Ph.D., University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Structural
Lipidomics/Other Lipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Jack Roberts, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville,
Tenn.; Glycerophospholipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Charles Serhan, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston; Eicosanoids/Fatty
Acids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Graham Shipley, Ph.D., Boston University School of Medicine, Boston;
Novel Lipid Biophysical Characterization, Lipid Synthesis and
Characterization Focus Area

Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
Sphingolipids/Glycosphingolipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Richard Ulevitch, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.;
Structural Lipidomics/Other Lipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area

Marvin Vestal, Ph.D., Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.; Lipid
Detection and Quantitation Focus Area

John Wooley, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; Administrative
Focus Area

Robert Yu, Ph.D., Med.ScD., Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga.;
Sphingolipids/Glycosphingolipids Core, Lipidomics Focus Area