Joseph L. Goldstein
Medical Scientists, Geneticists, Biochemists
VBL Therapeutics
Israel
Biography
He proceeded to study medicine and joined Texas University's Southwestern Medical School. After earning his MD he worked in biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a few years before moving back to the Southwestern Medical Center in 1972.Â
Research Interest
Goldstein and Brown began a focused study on the cholesterol present in the human bloodstream. Their intensive research led to the discovery that low-density lipoproteins (LDL)—the primary cholesterol-carrying particles—are withdrawn from the bloodstream into the body’s cells by receptors on the cells’ surface.
