Dr. Jay Heinecke, Professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), and Dr. Karin Bornfeldt, Professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), Adjunct Professor (Pathology), were awarded a $688,354 grant from the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute for their MPI R01 project “Structural basis for cardioprotective HDL.” Co-investigators are Dr. Baohai Shao, Research Associate Professor, Dr. Jenny Kanter, Research Assistant Professor and Dr. Yi He, Acting Instructor (all from Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition).  This multi-year award seeks to establish the structural features responsible for the cardioprotective functions of HDL in humans, which may have important implications for predicting CVD risk and developing HDL-targeted therapeutics.