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Joseph Leonard Goldstein

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Leonard Goldstein , 1940-, American molecular geneticist, b. Sumter, S.C., M.D. Univ. of Texas at Dallas, 1966. He worked as a biomedical researcher at the National Heart Institute (1968-70) and Washington Univ. (1970-72) before returning to the Southwestern Medical School of the Univ. of Texas at Dallas as professor. Goldstein and colleague Michael S. Brown researched cholesterol metabolism and discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that extract cholesterol from the bloodstream. The lack of sufficient LDL receptors is a major cause of cholesterol-related... Read more
Sheen, Martin
...x2013; 68; played the title role in Joseph Papp's "mod" production of Hamlet , 1968...Hostage (Philips — for TV) (as Leonard Hatch) 1977 The Cassandra Crossing (Cosmatos...Saperstein) (as Paul Andrews); Cold Front (Goldstein) (as John Hyde); Nightbreaker (Markle... Read more

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