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