Dr. Lawrence Goldstein Receives the Revelle Medal

Dr. Goldstein was instrumental in founding the UC San Diego Stem Cell program, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center. This week he will be receiving the Revelle Medal which recognizes sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the campus. The recipient’s achievements are illustrative of UC San Diego founder Roger Revelle’s vision to attract distinctive and visionary faculty leaders. The Medal honors a record of accomplishment that advances UC San Diego in fulfillment of the campus mission of exceptional teaching, research, service, and patient care.

Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is a global leader and pioneer in the fields of cell biology, genetics and neuroscience. He first came to UC San Diego as an undergraduate biology student and returned 17 years later as a faculty member in the School of Medicine. His research examines the molecular mechanisms of movement inside brain cells and how failures in movement in the systems may lead to neurodegenerative diseases. His laboratory has discovered important links between transport processes and diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases.

Under Goldstein’s leadership, the university established the UC San Diego Stem Cell program, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center. He has been active in national science policy, serving on several public scientific advisory committees and testifying in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about NIH funding and stem cell research. He is a recipient o f the Public Service Award from the American Society for Cell Biology and has a public policy fellowship program named for him by the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a board member for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which provides guidance on the State of California’s stem cell policies and secures funding in support of stem cell research, training and infrastructure.

The Revelle Medal recognizes sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the campus. The recipient’s achievements are illustrative of UC San Diego founder Roger Revelle’s vision to attract distinctive and visionary faculty leaders. The Medal honors a record of accomplishment that advances UC San Diego in fulfillment of the campus mission of exceptional teaching, research, service and patient care. Learn more about this honor here: https://chancellor.ucsd.edu/about-the-office/the-revelle-medal