- Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein (b. 1956) is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at
University of California, San Diego and Investigator with theHoward Hughes Medical Institute . He receives grant funding from theNIH , the Johns Hopkins ALS Center, the HighQ Foundation, and theCalifornia Institute for Regenerative Medicine .Biography
Dr. Goldstein received his B.A. degree in biology and genetics from
UCSD in 1976 and his Ph.D. degree in genetics from theUniversity of Washington, Seattle in 1980. He did postdoctoral research at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder from 1980-1983 and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983/1984. He was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor atHarvard University in the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology from 1984-1993 and moved toUCSD andHHMI in 1993. His awards include a Senior Scholar Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation, anAmerican Cancer Society Faculty Research Award, and the Loeb Chair in Natural Sciences when he was at Harvard University.His research is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of intracellular movement in neurons and the role of transport failures in neurodegenerative diseases. His lab provided the first molecular descriptions of
kinesin structure and organization, and has recently discovered important links between transport processes and diseases such asAlzheimer's Disease andHuntington's Disease . Dr. Goldstein has also had an active role in National Science policy. He has served on many public science advisory committees, has written about, spoken about, and been interviewed on numerous occasions on science issues by print and broadcast media, and has testified on a number of occasions in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about NIH funding and stem cell research. As a cofounder and consultant of the biotechnology company [http://www.cytokinetics.com Cytokinetics, Inc.] he has also had an active role in private industry.
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