Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
1940, Sumter, South Carolina, USA
United States
Joseph Goldstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Joseph Goldstein, from a Jewish family in South Carolina, has worked for decades at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas with his lifelong collaborator Michael Brown. Together they discovered the LDL receptor, the cell-surface docking site that pulls cholesterol out of the blood, and showed how its malfunction causes inherited high cholesterol and heart disease. Their work laid the scientific basis for statin drugs, and they shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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