Randy Schekman
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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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- 1948-12-30
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- 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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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.
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1948 birthsAlumni of the University of EdinburghAmerican biochemistsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Russian-Jewish descentAnnual Reviews (publisher) editorsForeign members of the Royal SocietyHoward Hughes Medical InvestigatorsJewish American scientistsJewish Nobel laureatesLiving people