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Also known as James E. Rothman, James Edward Rothman

American biologist and Nobel laureate

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James Edward Rothman is an American biochemist, physician, and university teacher born in Haverhill on November 3, 1950. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard Medical School, where his doctoral advisor was Eugene Kennedy. His academic career has included positions at Princeton University, Yale School of Medicine, Columbia University, and Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, and the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Rothman’s field of work is biochemistry, and he has authored works including "Reconstitution of Intracellular Transport" and "Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles." He has received the Heinrich Wieland Prize, Rosenstiel Award, Canada Gairdner International Award, and Richard Lounsbery Award. Additionally, he is recognized in the Nobel Medicine collection.

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  • Reconstitution of Intracellular Transport
  • Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles

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Gender
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Origin
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Key facts

Born
James Edward Rothman , ( 1950-11-03 ) November 3, 1950 (age 75) , Haverhill, Massachusetts , U.S.
Alma mater
Yale University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Awards
Heinrich Wieland Prize (1990) Rosenstiel Award (1993) Richard Lounsbery Award (1997) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002) Albert Lasker award (2002) E. B. Wilson Medal (2010) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2013)
Fields
Cell biology
Institutions
Yale University Columbia University University College London Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Princeton University Stanford University
Thesis
Transbilayer asymmetry and its maintenance in biological membranes (1976)
Academic advisors
Harvey Lodish
Website
medicine .yale .edu /profile /james-rothman /

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2013

    for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells

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Encyclopedic overview

James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) 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. 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.

Rothman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof). He received many other honors including the King Faisal International Prize in 1996, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002.

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