David B. Goldstein (geneticist)
David Benjamin Goldstein is an American human geneticist. 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. He then trained in theoretical population genetics at Stanford University (PhD 1994), where he worked with Marcus Feldman and Luca Cavalli Sforza. 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 serves as the Director of Institute for Genomic Medicine. 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: The