The pair were recently awarded the 2023 Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine by the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and the journal Molecular Medicine for their pioneering and collaborative work in defining the genetic risk factors for dyslipidemias and metabolic liver disease that have led to the rational design of new therapies. A trained physician, she was encouraged by Donald Selden, M.D., head of internal medicine at UT Southwestern to join Nobel Laureates Michael S. Brown and Joseph L Goldstein’s lab whose work in the regulation of cholesterol metabolism, laid the foundation for Hobbs’ own study of the genes that caused severe hypercholesterolemia.