Dr. Oda is an Associate Scientist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, wherein his research is focused on HDL structure-function. Dr. Oda is a co-inventor of multiple HDL-related patents, including NanoDisks and the HDL-apoA-I exchange (HAE) assay and the founder of Seer BioLogics, Inc. Additionally, Dr. Oda has been an editorial board member of the Journal of Lipid Research, is a former co-chair of the American Heart Association National grant review panel, and a former member of the NIH Atherosclerosis and Inflammation of the Cardiovascular System Study Section.