Randy Schekman

Randy Schekman
Randy Schekman
	Schekman in 2015
Born	Randy Wayne Schekman; December 30, 1948; Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Alma mater	UCLA (BA); Stanford University (PhD); University of Edinburgh
Known for	Editor-in-chief of PNAS and eLife
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1992); Rosenstiel Award (1993); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1996); Lasker award (2002); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002); Massry Prize (2010); E. B. Wilson Medal (2010); ForMemRS (2013); Nobel Prize in ; Physiology or Medicine (2013);
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; UCLA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Stanford University
Thesis	Resolution and Reconstruction of a multienzyme DNA replication reaction (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Kornberg
Doctoral students	David Julius; David Baker
Website	mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/schekman; royalsociety.org/people/randy-schekman

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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