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Randy Schekman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Randy Wayne Schekman, Randy W. Schekman, Randy W Schekman, R. W. Schekman, R W Schekman, R. Schekman, R Schekman, Schekman
Nobel prize winning American cell biologist
Randy Schekman is an American cell biologist who won the Nobel Prize for his research on how cells transport and deliver molecules to their proper locations. His work matters because it revealed fundamental processes that occur in all cells and has implications for understanding diseases and developing treatments.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology V26
- Annual review of cell and developmental biology
- The Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Guidebook to the secretory pathway
- Annual review of cell and developmental biology
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1943-11-28
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 23
- Total plays
- 116
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,564x
- The Satisfaction With Life Scale
· 1985 · cited 23,433x
- <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software
· 2007 · cited 20,200x
- An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest
· 2006 · cited 13,008x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,953x
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Randy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Saint Paul
- Occupation
- biologist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Arthur Kornberg
- Student of
- Arthur Kornberg
- Doctoral student
- David Baker
- Field of work
- cytology
- Official website
- mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/schekman
- Image
- Randy Shekman 01.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1948-12-30
- Commons category
- Randy Schekman
- name in native language
- Randy Schekman
- affiliation string
- University of California, Berkeley
- affiliation
- University of California, Berkeley
- interested in
- cytology
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Encyclopedic overview
Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) 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.
Early life and education
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