Background
Goulian was born on December 31, 1929 in Weehawken, New Jersey, United States; the son of Dicran Jacob and Shamiram (Mzrakjian) Goulian.
On December 14, 1967, Mehran Goulian and Arthur Kornberg held a press conference at Stanford University to discuss their assembly of a functional, 5,000-nucleotide-long bacteriophage genome.
Goulian was born on December 31, 1929 in Weehawken, New Jersey, United States; the son of Dicran Jacob and Shamiram (Mzrakjian) Goulian.
Mehran graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (nowadays Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. Four years later he earned a Doctor of Medicine from the same university.
Goulian began his career as an Assistant in Medicine and held the position from 1963 to 1965. He was a Fellow in Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he worked between 1965 and 1967.
In 1967, Mehran became a Research Associate in Biochemistry at the University of Chicago and held it for two years. Then in 1967 he was appointed an Associate Professor of Medicine at the same university and worked until 1970. Also in 1969 he took a position of an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago and held it for a year.
Since 1970 Mehran has been a Professor of Medicine at the University of California in San Diego. Nowadays Goulian is a Professor Emeritus at the same university.
Goulian is a member of American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society of Hematology, American Association of Physicians, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha.
On August 5, 1961 Mehran Goulian married Susan Ann Hook. They have 3 children.