Randy Schekman Scientist

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is a Nobel Prize-winning American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 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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Alias (AKA)	Schekman Randy W.
Birth date	December 30, 1948
Birth name	Randy Wayne Schekman
Birth place	Saint Paul Minnesota
Education	Stanford University University of California Los Angeles University of Edinburgh
Known for	ELife Editor-in-chief

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awards	Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Royal Society Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine E. B. Wilson Medal Massry Prize
doctoral advisor	Arthur Kornberg
doctoral student	David Julius