Joseph Goldstein, M.D. Professor & Chair Endowed Title Julie and Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research; Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine; Regental Professor School Medical School Department Molecular Genetics | Internal Medicine Graduate Programs Cell and Molecular Biology Biography Joseph L. Goldstein is currently Chairman of the Department of Molecular Genetics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. In 1985, he was named Regental Professor of the University of Texas. He also holds the Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine and the Julie and Louis A. Beecherl Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science. Dr. Goldstein and his colleague, Michael S. Brown, discovered the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor and worked out how these receptors control cholesterol homeostasis. At the basic level, this work opened the field of receptor-mediated endocytosis, and at the clinical level it helped lay the conceptual groundwork for development of drugs called statins that lower blood LDL-cholesterol and prevent heart attacks. Drs. Goldstein and Brown shared many awards for this work, including the Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research (1985), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1985), and National Medal of Science (1988). In recent work, Drs. Goldstein and Brown discovered the SREBP family of transcription factors and showed how these membrane-bound molecules control the synthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids through a newly described process of Regulated Intramembrane Proteolysis. For this work, Drs. Brown and Goldstein received the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2003). Dr. Goldstein is currently Chairman of the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards Jury and is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Rockefeller University. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Welch Foundation, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Scripps Research Institute, Van Andel Institute, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Presented his talk, "How to Become a Successful Scientist" for the UT Southwestern 2023 New Faculty Research Forum. Education Undergraduate Washington and Lee University (1962) Medical School UT Southwestern Medical Center (1966) Research Interest Cholesterol and Lipoprotein Metabolism Genetics of Human Disease Publications Featured Publications Presentation: "How to Become a Successful Scientist" Joseph Goldstein, M.D. 2023 New Faculty Research Forum 2023 Protein sensors for membrane sterols. Goldstein, J.L., DeBose-Boyd, R.A. and Brown, M.S. Cell 2006 124 35-46 Direct binding of cholesterol to the purified membrane region of SCAP: Mechanism for a sterol-sensing domain. Radhakrishnan, A., Sun, L.-P., Kwon, H.J., Brown, M.S., and Goldstein, J.L. Molecular Cell 2004 15 259-268 Crucial step in cholesterol homeostasis: Sterols promote binding of SCAP to INSIG-1, a membrane protein that facilitates retention of SREBPs in the ER. Yang, T., Espenshade, P.J., Wright, M.E., Yabe, D., Gong, Y., Aebersold, R., Goldstein, J.L., and Brown, M.S. Cell 2002 110 489-500 Leptin reverses insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus in mice with congenital lipodystrophy. Shimomura, I., Hammer, R.E., Ikemoto, S., Brown, M.S., and Goldstein, J.L. Nature 1999 401 73-76 The SREBP Pathway: Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism by Proteolysis of a Membrane-Bound Transcription Factor. Brown, M.S. and Goldstein, J.L. Cell 1997 89 331-340 Lysosomal cholesterol export reconstituted from fragments of Niemann-Pick C1. Trinh MN, Brown MS, Seemann J, Goldstein JL, Lu F Elife 2018 Jul 7 BHLHE40, a third transcription factor required for insulin induction of SREBP-1c mRNA in rodent liver. Tian J, Wu J, Chen X, Guo T, Chen ZJ, Goldstein JL, Brown MS Elife 2018 Jun 7 Retrospective on Cholesterol Homeostasis: The Central Role of Scap. Brown MS, Radhakrishnan A, Goldstein JL Annu. Rev. Biochem. 2017 Aug Cholesterol-induced conformation changes in the sterol-sensing domain of the scap protein suggest feedback mechanism to control cholesterol synthesis. Gao Y, Zhou Y, Goldstein JL, Brown MS, Radhakrishnan A J. Biol. Chem. 2017 Apr Results 1-10 of 32 1 2 3 4 Next Last Honors & Awards Rolf Luft Prize (2016) Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award (2011) Albany Medical Center Prize in Biomedical Research (2003) Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2000) U.S. National Medal of Science (1988) Albert D. Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research (1985) Nobel Prize In Physiology or Medicine (1985) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Philosophical Society Association of American Physicians Institute of Medicine Royal Society (London) U.S. National Academy of Sciences
