Randy Schekman

1948 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Edinburgh, Western High School

occupation: biochemist, physician, university teacher, biologist, international forum participant

award received: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Guggenheim Fellowship, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Canada Gairdner International Award, Otto Warburg Medal, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Dickson Prize in Medicine, Massry Prize, Rosenstiel Award, E. B. Wilson Medal, Keith R. Porter Lecture, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Van Deenen Medal

student of: Arthur Kornberg

official website: mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/schekman

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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