The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Joseph L. Goldstein
Title:
Professor of Medicine & Genetics
Affiliation:
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas,Texas USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
1988
Citation:
"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."
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.
Nobel Laureate:
Physiology or Medicine, 1985