Joseph L. Goldstein - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	18-April-1940
Place of Birth	Kingstree (Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Joseph Goldstein, Joseph L Goldstein
Profession	Chemist
Joseph Leonard Goldstein received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that "human cells have low-density lipoprotein receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood" and that when "LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develop hypercholesteromeia" and become at risk for cholesterol related diseases. Their studies led to the development of statin drugs.

Awards by Joseph L. Goldstein

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joseph L. Goldstein.

1988

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(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.)

1985

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(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.)

1984

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

1981

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For their discovery of the role of receptor-mediated uptake of lipoproteins in the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.)

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