Joseph L. Goldstein

Joseph Leonard Goldstein ( born April 18, 1940 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States) is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate in medicine.

Life

Joseph L. Goldstein studied chemistry at Washington and Lee University (Bachelor 1962) and Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with the MD degree in 1966. Located in South Western Medical Center, where he is a professor today, he had with Brown in the 1970s the work for which both were later honored with the Nobel Prize.

1976 were both with the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, in 1979 with the Richard Lounsbery Award, 1981 awarded the Gairdner Foundation International Award, and in 1984 with the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize. 1985 Goldstein, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and together with Michael Stuart Brown received both the William Allan Award and especially the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine " for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism " In 1987, he held the Keith R. Porter Lecture.