Golber Leonid Moiseevich (born 1909, Zlatopol, Kiev Governorate) — pathophysiologist and endocrinologist. Doctor of Medical Sciences (1947), professor.

Leonid Golber graduated from the Kharkov Medical Institute in 1932 and entered postgraduate studies at the Department of Pathophysiology of the Ukrainian Institute for Advanced Medical Training. From 1935 to 1938, he was an assistant at the Department of Pathophysiology at the Central Institute for Advanced Medical Training and the Second Moscow Medical Institute. From 1938 to 1941, he was an associate professor at the same department at the Central Institute.

During the Second World War (1941–1945), he served as chief of military hospitals on the front lines.

From 1945 to 1947, Golber worked in the experimental division of the Riga Institute of Reconstructive Surgery. From 1947 to 1961, he was head of the Department of Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Latvia (later the Riga Medical Institute). From 1961 to 1990, he served as head of the Laboratory of Pathophysiology and later as deputy director for research at the All-Union Institute of Experimental Endocrinology (later the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Hormone Chemistry). Since 1983, he had been scientific consultant to the Laboratory of Pathology and Immunology of the Endocrine System.

Golber’s principal research focused on the pathogenesis of systemic disorders in endocrine diseases, including thyrotoxicosis and diabetes mellitus, as well as studies of metabolic processes and physiological functions in pathologies of the pancreas and thyroid gland.

He was a member of the presidium of the All-Russian Societies of Pathophysiologists and Endocrinologists and served as deputy chair of the Moscow Society of Endocrinologists. He was awarded the Hans Selye Medal.

Selected works:

– Нек-рые новые данные о взаимоотношении селезенки и печени в обмене веществ (Some New Data on the Relationship Between the Spleen and Liver in Metabolism), Riga, 1948

– К патохимической характеристике острых форм огне­стрельного остеомиелита (On the Pathochemical Characteristics of Acute Forms of Gunshot Osteomyelitis), Riga, 1953

– Очерки физи­ологии и патофизиологии гепито-лиенальной систе­мы (Essays on the Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Hepato-Lienal System), Moscow, 1947