David Benjamin Goldstein is an American human

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. Goldstein is founding Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at the

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, Professor of

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and

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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 The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

. He then trained in theoretical population genetics at

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(PhD 1994), where he worked with Marcus Feldman and Luca Cavalli Sforza.

Career

From 1996 to 1999, Goldstein was a lecturer at

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. He served as the Wolfson Professor of Genetics,

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from 1999 to 2005. In 2005, Goldstein became the Richard and Pat Johnson Distinguished University Professor of Genetics, Microbiology, and Biology at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. In 2014, he became the John E. Borne Professor of Medical and Surgical Research at

where he served as the Director of

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. As of 2024, he is co-founder and CEO of Actio Biosciences.

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 role of

IL28B Interferon lambda 3 (gene symbol: ''IFNL3)'' encodes the IFNL3 protein. ''IFNL3'' was formerly named ''IL28B'', but the Human Genome Organization Gene Nomenclature Committee renamed this gene in 2013 while assigning a name to the then newly disc ...

in response to treatment for Hepatitis C infection in collaboration with John McHutchison and others. *Identification of

ATP1A3 Sodium/potassium-transporting ATPase subunit alpha-3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''ATP1A3'' gene. Function The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the family of P-type cation transport ATPases, and to the subfamily of ...

as the gene responsible for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood in collaboration with Erin Heinzen and others. *Discovery of

NGLY1 deficiency NGLY1 deficiency is a very rare genetic disorder caused by autosomal recessive, biallelic pathogenic mutation, variants in ''NGLY1''. It is an autosomal recessive disorder. Errors in glycosylation, deglycosylation are responsible for the symptoms ...

as a new syndrome in collaboration with Vandana Shashi, Anna Need, and others. *New genes for epileptic encephalopathies as part of the Epi4K Consortium.

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 The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It conducts and funds research on brain and nervous system disorders and has a budget of just over US$2.03 billion. The ...

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Selected publications

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References

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