David B. Goldstein (geneticist) explained

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David Benjamin Goldstein is an American human geneticist.[2] Goldstein is founding Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center, Professor of Genetics and Development and directs the genomics core of Epi4K and administrative cores of Epi4K with Dan Lowenstein and Sam Berkovic.

Education

Goldstein received a Bachelors in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles.[3] He then trained in theoretical population genetics at Stanford University (PhD 1994), where he worked with Marcus Feldman and Luca Cavalli Sforza.[3]

Career

From 1996 to 1999, Goldstein was a lecturer at University of Oxford. He served as the Wolfson Professor of Genetics, University College London from 1999 to 2005. In 2005, Goldstein became the Richard and Pat Johnson Distinguished University Professor of Genetics, Microbiology, and Biology at Duke University. In 2014, he became the John E. Borne Professor of Medical and Surgical Research at Columbia University Medical Center where he served as the Director of Institute for Genomic Medicine. As of 2024, he is co-founder and CEO of Actio Biosciences.[4]

Research

Goldstein's primary research interests include human genetic diversity, the genetics of disease, and pharmacogenetics. The Goldstein group and collaborators have discovered a number of disease causing genes and syndromes, in particular in neurological and infectious diseases including:

Awards and service

Goldstein was elected a fellow of AAAS in 2013, received the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill IPIT award for clinical services in 2012, and was a recipient of one of the first seven nationally awarded Royal Society / Wolfson research merit awards in the UK for his work in human population genetics. In 2013, Goldstein chaired the Gordon Research Conference in Human Genetics, and he is currently serving on the Advisory Council at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH.

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. DPhil. University of Oxford. Genetic analysis of human evolutionary history with implications for gene mapping. David Emile. Reich. 1999. . ox.ac.uk. 863264589.
  2. David Goldstein to Direct Columbia's Institute for Genomic Medicine . VP&S News . Columbia University . Fall 2014.
  3. News: Goldstein Lab. November 20, 2015. Institute of Genomic Medicine. October 3, 2021.
  4. Web site: About • Actio Biosciences . Actio Biosciences . 2023-09-08 . 2024-02-24.

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