Joseph L.
Goldstein
Professor of Medicine & Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
1988
Biology
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 Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1985