David Goldman is chief of the laboratory of neurogenetics at the National Institutes of Health's Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. This laboratory is the world's leading research facility in the genetics of alcoholism, substance abuse, and related problems. Dr. Goldman has identified, in a large-scale family linkage study on southwestern Indians, evidence of two major genes influencing vulnerability to alcoholism. With more than 200 publications, Dr. Goldman also sits on several editorial review boards. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Texas.