2026 Russell Ross Memorial Lectureship in Vascular Biologyr – Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, FAHA

Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, FAHA

NYU Grossman School of Medicine
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York

Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, is the Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, where he is also the founding director of the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. He is a graduate of the NYU School of Medicine and received his clinical training at Duke and Harvard. He also holds a PhD from MIT in biochemistry and nutrition and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health in molecular genetics.

Fisher’s research program includes investigations of the cell biology of very-low-density lipoproteins (the precursors of LDL), the reversal of atherosclerosis and the development of nanoparticles to target therapies directly to diseased coronary arteries. He has made numerous contributions to the American Heart Association and ATVB Council by committee service and as editor-in-chief of the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.

He has also received many awards for his clinical and research contributions, including the George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecture and Distinguished Achievement Awards from the ATVB Council. In 2010-11, he was the George Eastman Professor at Oxford University, an honor shared with 13 Nobel laureates.