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The
President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
JOSEPH L. GOLDSTEIN
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Professor of Medicine & Genetics |
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
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Dallas, TexasUSA |
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Male
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| Award Discipline: |
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Biological Sciences |
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| Award Year: |
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1988 |
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| Citation: |
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"For their historic discovery of the basic mechanisms controlling cholesterol metabolism, opening the way to a new pharmacologic approach to the treatment of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death and disability in the Western world." |
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Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988. Awarded jointly with Dr. Michael S. Brown, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. |
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| Nobel Laureate: |
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Physiology or Medicine, 1985 |
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