Bioactive Lipids: Expanding Horizons of Membrane Medicine

Friday Nov 6 - Bioactive Lipids: Expanding Horizons of Membrane Medicine
Saturday Nov 7 - Clinical Workshop: Bioactive Lipids in Practice. By invitation only 

The BSEM's November 2026 event, reflects where the field of Bioactive Lipids has arrived at today. The lipid story that BSEM members were tracing clinically through dietary fatty acids, red-cell lipid analysis at the Johns Hopkins Peroxisomal Diseases Laboratory, membrane structure and function, and inflammatory disease two decades ago has converged on mechanisms that are now active frontiers in biomedical research: the specialised pro-resolving mediators, the structural and signalling roles of DHA within the brain and nervous system, the influence of membrane phospholipid composition on cellular communication and metabolic function, the consequences of lipid depletion, and the evolutionary mismatch between modern diets and our lipid biochemistry.

What once appeared to be disparate observations are increasingly being unified through advances in lipidomics, neuroscience, immunology, and systems biology. We now understand that lipids function not only as structural components and energy substrates, but also as dynamic signalling molecules that influence inflammation, immune regulation, mitochondrial function, neuroprotection, cellular resilience, and tissue repair.

These are no longer questions at the margins. They sit at the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, metabolic medicine, photobiology and clinical nutrition, and they have direct, practical implications for how we treat patients with inflammatory, neurological, metabolic, and chronic degenerative disease.

The BSEM has always been an organisation that seeks to close the gap between the research bench and the consulting room. This event is an opportunity to do exactly that, in the company of scientists and clinicians who share that ambition.

Confirmed Speakers

Professor Michael Crawford: DHA, Vision and Neuronal Function
Professor Charles Serhan: Resolvins and Inflammatory Disease
Professor Dipak Ramji: DGLA and Cardiovascular Disease
Dr Irina Guschina: Short-chain Fatty Acids and Connection with Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
Dr Patricia Kane PhD: Membrane Medicine in Neurological Disease
Dr Damien Downing: Cardiolipin and the Mitochondria
Dr Andreas Grossgold: Lipids, Infection and Epigenetic Clearance

With a fabulous lunch (gluten free, dairy free, low carb, paleo, vegetarian and vegan options available)

Saturday November 7th - Exclusive Clinical Workshop - by invitation only
The Workshop will provide medical practitioners with practical, case-based approaches to lipid medicine and integrative therapeutics, including applications in neurology, cardiovascular disease, inflammation and cancer care.

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