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James Rothman

American biologist and Nobel laureate

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James Rothman is an American biologist who won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries about how cells transport and deliver materials internally, a fundamental process that keeps cells functioning properly. His work matters because understanding these cellular delivery systems has important applications for treating diseases and developing new medicines.

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Born: 1950-11-03
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Country: GB

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The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 75,924x
Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
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Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
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SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

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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.