Yale E. Goldman

Biophysicist and physiologist Yale E. Goldman is Professor of Physiology at Perelman School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Nano-Bio Interface Center at the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a tireless advocate for applying nanotechnology to physiological problems. He has developed novel biophysical methods including laser photolysis of caged nucleotide substrates, nanometer tracking of position and orientation of single fluorescent probes and ultra-fast feedback infrared optical traps.

Goldman's laboratory studies cell motility and protein synthesis and his research areas relate to the structural changes to enzymatic reactions and mechanical steps of the energy transduction mechanism by mapping the real-time domain motions of the motor proteins and ribosomal elongation factors.  He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, MD and Physiology PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College London, UK.