Dr David B Goldstein

Director, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Center for Human Genome Variation


Email: angelique.cherry@hgm2010.org
Webpage link: http://www.genome.duke.edu/labs/goldstein/

Dr. David Goldstein is Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Department of Biology and Director of Duke Institute for Genome Science & Policy, Center for Human Genome Variation since June 2005. Dr. Goldstein received his PhD in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 1994, and from 1999 to 2005 was Wolfson Professor of Genetics at University College London. In April 2007, he was appointed Honorary Professor, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK.

 Dr. Goldstein is the author of over 100 scholarly publications in the areas of population and medical genetics.  His principal interests include human genetic diversity, the genetics of neurological disease, and pharmacogenetics.  As part of the Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), his laboratory also has a particular focus on the host genetics of HIV infection. He is the 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.Dr. Goldstein was awarded the Triangle Business Journal Health Care Heroes Award:Innovator/Researcher Award, March 2008.