Awards & Winners

Michael Stuart Brown

Date of Birth 13-April-1941
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Michael S. Brown
Profession Scientist
Michael Stuart Brown is an American geneticist and Nobel Laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.

Awards by Michael Stuart Brown

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Stuart Brown.

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


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.)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism)

1981


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