Henry J. Pownall of Weiss Cornell Medicine Delivers Catherine H. Bone Lecture in Chemistry Nov. 6 at Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA (11/01/2019) — Henry J. Pownall, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at Weiss Cornell Medicine and a scientist at Houston Methodist Research Institute, will deliver the Catherine H. Bone Lecture in Chemistry at Wilkes University on Nov. 6. The event is at 7:30 p.m. in Stark Learning Center, Room 101. Pownall will speak about "Cardioprotection via High Density Lipoprotein Therapy-From Biophysics to Mouse Models." The lecture is free and open to the public.
Pownall graduated from Wilkes College in 1967 with a master of science degree in chemistry. He earned a doctorate from Northeastern University. His doctoral training was in physical chemistry with postdoctoral fellowships in molecular spectroscopy at the University of Houston, and biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine with an emphasis on lipid metabolism.
Over time Pownall moved from studying molecules to focus on in vivo models with living organisms, studying biophysics, peptide design, lipid synthesis and enzymology, and cell and molecular biology. His work is centered on high-density lipoprotein therapeutics, and energy metabolism as it relates to obesity-linked diabetes and human lipid metabolism. A major goal of his research is to determine how alcohol ingestion contributes to enhanced postprandial lipemia, attendant pancreatitis, or alcohol-induced reduction of cardiovascular disease, an effect mediated by increased HDL-cholesterol.
The Catherine H. Bone Lecture series was made possible by the endowments of its namesake, who taught chemistry at Wilkes from 1946 to 1965.
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Wilkes University is a private, independent, non-sectarian institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, Wilkes is on a mission to create one of the nation's finest doctoral universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small college, open to all who show promise. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 46 majors, Wilkes offers 24 master's degree programs and five doctoral/terminal degree programs, including the doctor of philosophy in nursing, doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education, doctor of pharmacy, and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at www.wilkes.edu.
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