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Randy Schekman

Nobel prize winning American cell biologist · United States · Doctors · Born 1948 · age 77

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Randy Wayne Schekman 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.

A life in dates

2013Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAwardNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAwardOtto Warburg MedalAward2010E. B. Wilson MedalAwardMassry PrizeAward2009Clarivate Citation LaureatesAward2008Dickson Prize in MedicineAward2007Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAwardVan Deenen MedalAward2005Keith R. Porter LectureAward2002Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAwardLouisa Gross Horwitz PrizeAward1996Canada Gairdner International AwardAward1993Rosenstiel AwardAward1948Born30 December 1948

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2013
Otto Warburg Medal2013
Foreign Member of the Royal Society2013
Massry Prize2010
E. B. Wilson Medal2010
Clarivate Citation Laureates2009
Dickson Prize in Medicine2008
Van Deenen Medal2007
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2007
Keith R. Porter Lecture2005
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research2002
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize2002
Canada Gairdner International Award1996
Rosenstiel Award1993
Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

Randy Wayne Schekman 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.

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Category
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Doctor
Status
living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 77

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