“G” is for Goldstein, Joseph Leonard (b. 1940). Scientist, physician, Nobel Laureate. Goldstein grew up in Kingstree and received his medical degree from Southwestern Medical School of the University of Texas Health Center at Dallas. He and Michael Brown served in the internship and residency program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Together they discovered the receptor molecule, a structure that on cell surfaces that regulates cholesterol levels in blood. They found that the molecule indicates some correlation between blood cholesterol levels and heart disease. Goldstein returned to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas in 1972 where he was named Professor of Medicine and Genetics. In 1985, Joseph Leonard Goldstein and his colleague were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for their research into cholesterol metabolism and the discovery of low-density LDL receptors.
“G” is for Goldstein, Joseph Leonard (b. 1940)
