Affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital

Timothy Hla received his PhD in biochemistry from The George Washington University. Following post-doctoral training with Tom Maciag, he started his laboratory at the Holland Laboratory at the American Red Cross, Rockville, MD. He was recruited to the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, CT where he founded the research center for Vascular Biology and was eventually promoted to Professor. In 2009, he was recruited as a Professor and Director of the Center for Vascular Biology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He moved his research program to Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) in 2016 where he is appointed as an investigator at the Vascular Biology Program and Patricia K. Donohoe Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hla is currently heading a laboratory at the BCH to conduct basic research on lysophophospholipids in vascular, immune, and central nervous systems. Dr. Hla is an honorary member of the Japanese Biochemical Society, elected as a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, received an honorary MD degree from the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany a MERIT award from the NHLBI, NIH in 2006. He currently holds the outstanding investigator award from the NHLBI, NIH.