James Rothman

American biologist and Nobel laureate · United States · On the map · Doctors · Born 1950 · age 76

James Edward Rothman is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus.

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2019Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward2016Van Deenen MedalAward2013Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward2010E. B. Wilson MedalAwardMassry PrizeAward2009Clarivate Citation LaureatesAward2007Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2002Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward2001Otto Warburg MedalAward2000Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and BiophysicsAward1996Canada Gairdner International AwardAwardKing Faisal International Prize in ScienceAward1993Rosenstiel AwardAward1990Heinrich Wieland PrizeAward1950Born3 November 1950

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Nobel Prize Ceremony: James Rothman receives his award from king of Sweden.

Awards

Foreign Member of the Royal Society2019

Van Deenen Medal2016

Honorary Doctorate from ENS2014

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2013

Kavli Prize in Neuroscience2010

Massry Prize2010

E. B. Wilson Medal2010

Clarivate Citation Laureates2009

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2007

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research2002

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize2002

Otto Warburg Medal2001

Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics2000

Richard Lounsbery Award1997

Canada Gairdner International Award1996

King Faisal International Prize in Science1996

Honorary Doctor of the University of Regensburg1995

Rosenstiel Award1993

Heinrich Wieland Prize1990

Sterling Professor

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards

About this person

Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.

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United States

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