Lysosomes – Biology, Diseases, and Therapeutics

Frederick R. Maxfield, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He has used digital imaging microscopy to characterize pH changes in endocytic organelles, to measure the kinetics of transport of molecules among organelles, and to identify new endocytic organelles such as the endocytic recycling compartment. Dr. Maxfield has published extensively on trafficking of lipids and cholesterol. James M. Willard, PhD, has been a member of the Phospholipidosis Working Group at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) of the Food and Drug Administration since 2005 and Co-Chair of the group since 2011. Shuyan Lu, MSc, has been an Investigative Toxicologist of Drug Research and Development at Pfizer for over 10 years. She studies the role of lysosomal pathways and physical chemical properties of compounds in drug-induced toxicity.