Prof. Emeritus Roland Stocker Heart Research Institute, Australia

Roland Stocker is an international leader in the field of redox biology who through his career has made seminal contributions and shifted paradigms in the field of oxidative processes and antioxidants in cardiovascular disease. His research includes the discovery of beneficial antioxidant activities of the bile pigment bilirubin; identification of... read morethe reduced form of coenzyme Q10 as an important antioxidant in circulating lipoproteins; key discoveries understanding the molecular action of vitamin E during lipoprotein oxidation and delineating contributions of the latter to atherogenesis; pioneering work in heme oxygenase-1 and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase.