Randy Schekman | |
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Born | Randy Wayne Schekman December 30, 1948 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | UCLA (BA) Stanford University (PhD) |
Known for | Editor-in-chief of PNAS[1] and eLife[2] |
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Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley UCLA Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University |
Thesis | Resolution and Reconstruction of a multienzyme DNA replication reaction (1975) |
Doctoral advisor | Arthur Kornberg |
Doctoral students | David Julius[5] David Baker |
Website | mcb royalsociety |
Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist. He works at the University of California, Berkeley.[6] He is the editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.[1][7][8][9]
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.[10]