goldstein is chair, molecular genetics at university of texas southwestern medical center. together, goldstein and brown lead a research team that typically includes a dozen doctoral and postdoctoral trainees. they have trained over 145 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and five of their former postdoctoral fellows (thomas c. südhof, wang xiaodong, helen h. hobbs, david w. russell, and monty krieger) have been elected to the u.s. national academy of sciences. former postdoctoral fellow thomas südhof received the 2013 nobel prize in medicine or physiology and helen h. hobbs received the 2015 breakthrough prize in life sciences.