Robert D. Goldman

Robert D. Goldman is an American cell and molecular biologist. He is the Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and holds the Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology at the institution.[2]

Robert D. Goldman
Born(1939-07-23)July 23, 1939
CitizenshipUnited States of America
EducationUniversity of Vermont, M.S., Princeton University, Ph.D. 1967
Known forintermediate filaments
Spouse(s)Anne Goldman
AwardsPresident of the American Society for Cell Biology, 2008; Ellison Senior Scholar Award in Aging, 2004[1]
Scientific career
Fieldscell biology, molecular biology
InstitutionsFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Marine Biological Laboratory; Royal Postgraduate Medical School; MRC Institute of Virology; Carnegie-Mellon University
ThesisThe structure and some properties of the isolated mitotic apparatus. (1967)
Doctoral advisorLionel Israel Rebhun
Websitelabs.feinberg.northwestern.edu/goldman/

Education

Goldman majored in zoology at the University of Vermont where he pursued an interest in how organisms interact with their environment. He subsequently also received his Masters from the University of Vermont in Freshwater Biology and graduated in 1963.[3] The title of his master thesis was "An investigation of growth-inhibiting substances produced by Kirchnerielle subsolitaria, a green alga."[4]

Goldman pursued doctoral studies at Princeton University where he did research with Lionel I. Rebhun on understanding the sea urchin mitotic apparatus. Much of the work was conducted in Woods Hole, Massachusetts at the Marine Biological Laboratory.[3] Goldman received his Ph.D. in Biology from Princeton University in 1967.[2][5]

Career

Upon earning his Ph.D. in 1967, Goldman subsequently pursued post-doctoral research with in enzyme cytochemistry, cell biology, and cell culture at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London and the MRC Institute of Virology in Glasgow. In 1969 through 1973, he was an assistant professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University. From 1973 to 1981, we was an associate professor and professor of biological sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University. In 1981, he was named The Stephen Walter Ranson Professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine in Northwestern University and Chair of the Anatomy Department. The department was subsequently renamed the Cell Biology and Anatomy Department; the Cell Biology and Molecular Biology Department; the Cell, Molecular, and Structural Biology Department; and presently the Cell and Molecular Biology Department.[3]

For more than three decades, Professor Goldman has conducted research on intermediate filaments in the cytoskeleton and the nucleoskeleton. He presently concentrates his efforts on molecular mechanisms that organize these intermediate filaments including their assembly and disassembly. He currently pursues research on vimentin and lamins.[3]

Publications

Goldman has published more than 400 publications on intermediate filaments.[6][7]

He is the author of Live Cell Imaging: A Laboratory Manual.[8]

Awards and honors

MERIT Award, National Institute for General Medical Sciences, 1999-2009[9]

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988[10]

Ellison Senior Scholar Award in Aging, 2004[1]

Elected president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2008.[11]

Elected foreign member Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters 2014[12]

NIH Director Francis Collins made a video tribute[13] to Goldman for a symposium celebrating his scientific career.[14]

References
  1. "The Lawrence Ellison Foundation | Fostering creativity in biomedical research". www.ellisonfoundation.org.
  2. "Faculty Profile: Robert Goldman, PhD". Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern Medicine. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  3. "1993 Bob Goldman" (PDF). ASCB.
  4. Goldman, Robert D. (1963). An investigation of growth-inhibiting substances produced by Kirchnerielle subsolitaria, a green alga. Thesis (M.S.)--University of Vermont, 1963.
  5. "Graduate Alumni Records -- Graduate Degrees Earned -- Robert D. Goldman". Princeton University Library. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  6. Hendrickson, W. A.; Ward, K. B. (1975). "Robert D. Goldman[author] - PubMed - NCBI". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 66 (4): 1349–56. doi:10.1016/0006-291x(75)90508-2. PMID 5.
  7. "My NCBI Collections - MyBibliography". Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  8. Goldman, Robert D; Spector, David L; Swedlow, Jason R, ed. (2009). Live cell imaging a laboratory manual (2. ed.). Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN 978-0879698935.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  9. "NIH MERIT awards".
  10. "AAAA Elected Fellows".
  11. "ASCB Presidents". American Society for Cell Biology. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  12. (PDF) http://scientiarum.fi/eng/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/02/Utl%C3%A4ndska-ledam%C3%B6ter.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. NIHOD (27 September 2018). "A Tribute to Dr. Robert Goldman from NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins". YouTube. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  14. Williams, Anna. "Celebrating the Scientific Career of Robert Goldman". news.feinberg.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
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