Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

(For Executing Form ID and Forms 3, 4 and 5)

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints each of Mark R. Busch and Patrick
J. Rogers of K&L Gates LLP, and Kathryn F. Twiddy and Lucy
G. Martindale of LipoScience, Inc. (the ?Company?), signing
individually, the undersigned?s true and lawful attorneys in
fact and agents to:

(1) Prepare, execute in the undersigned?s name and on the
undersigned?s behalf, and submit to the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the ?SEC?) a Form ID, Uniform Application for Access
Codes to File on EDGAR, including amendments thereto, and any
other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and
passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings
with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the ?Exchange Act?),
or any rule or regulation thereunder;

(2) Prepare, execute in the undersigned?s name and on the
undersigned?s behalf, and submit to the SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5
(including amendments thereto and joint filing agreements in
connection therewith) in accordance with Section 16(a) of the
Exchange Act and the rules thereunder in the undersigned?s
capacity as an officer, director or beneficial owner of more than
10% of a registered class of securities of the Company;

(3) Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to prepare and
execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 (including amendments thereto
and joint filing agreements in connection therewith) and file such
forms with the SEC and any stock exchange, self-regulatory
association or any similar authority; and

(4) Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
the foregoing that, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may
be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required of
the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed
by the attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to
this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such
terms and conditions as the attorney-in-fact may approve in the
attorney-in-fact?s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney in fact full power
and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the
exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney in fact, or
such attorney in fact?s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that
the foregoing attorney-in-fact, and their substitutes, in serving in
such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming
(nor is the Company assuming) any of the undersigned?s
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the earliest to occur of (a) the undersigned is no longer required
to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned?s holdings
of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, (b)
revocation by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
Company and the foregoing attorneys in fact or (c) as to any
attorney-in-fact individually, until such attorney-in-fact is no
longer employed by the Company or K&L Gates LLP, as applicable.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of the date written below.

Date:  March 21, 2014


By:    /s/ William C. Cromwell
Name:  William C. Cromwell