DURHAM, N.C. - Joseph L. Goldstein, M.D., winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine, will be the keynote speaker for the Medical Scientist Training Program's annual lecture on Friday, May, 3 at Duke University Medical Center. The title of Goldstein's presentation is "SREBPs: Global Regulators of Membrane Lipid Production." The lecture, which is open to the public, begins at noon in the Searle Center at Duke. Goldstein is chairman of the department of molecular genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of receptors that control cholesterol metabolism. He also has received the National Medal of Science in 1988 and the Albert D. Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research in 1985. Goldstein also serves as chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller University and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The Medical Scientist Training Program at Duke is a program of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. It supports the integrated medical and graduate research training that is required for the investigation of human diseases by trainees in graduate programs in the biological, chemical and physical sciences.

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