Keynote talk title: Quantitative Measurements of Circulating Ceramides as Markers for Cardiometabolic Disorders
Federico Torta is a Research Assistant Professor at the Signature Research Program in Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders, Duke-NUS Medical School and at the Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is also the director of the lipidomics unit of SingMass, the Singapore National Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Parma, Italy. His expertise includes sphingolipidomics, high-throughput technologies for the assessment of lipidomes in large human cohorts and the study of protein-lipid complexes.