Randy Schekman

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist. He works at the University of California, Berkeley.[6] He is the editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.[1][7][8][9]

Randy Schekman
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Schekman in 2015.
Born
Randy Wayne Schekman

(1948-12-30) December 30, 1948 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUCLA (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Known forEditor-in-chief of PNAS[1] and eLife[2]
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
UCLA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University
ThesisResolution and Reconstruction of
a multienzyme DNA replication reaction
 (1975)
Doctoral studentsDavid Julius[5]
David Baker
Websitemcb.berkeley.edu/labs/schekman
royalsociety.org/people/randy-schekman

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.[10]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Zagorski, N. (2008). "Profile of Randy Schekman: Reflections on his first year as PNAS Editor-in-Chief". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (8): 2763–2765. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.2763Z. doi:10.1073/pnas.0610781105. PMC 2268533. PMID 18287009.
  2. Schekman, R.; Patterson, M. (2013). "Reforming research assessment". eLife. 2: e00855. doi:10.7554/eLife.00855. PMC 3656620. PMID 23700504.
  3. "Professor Randy Schekman ForMemRS". Royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  4. Wickner, W. T. (2013). "Profile of Thomas Sudhof, James Rothman, and Randy Schekman, 2013 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (46): 18349–50. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11018349W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1319309110. PMC 3832004. PMID 24158482.
  5. "Julius Lab - David Julius". Physio.ucsf.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  6. "Randy Schekman: Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology". Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  7. Bucci, M. (2006). "Randy Schekman". Nature Chemical Biology. 2 (11): 568. doi:10.1038/nchembio1106-568. PMID 17051227. S2CID 40321085.
  8. Zagorski, N. (2006). "QnAs with Randy Schekman". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (50): 18881. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10318881Z. doi:10.1073/pnas.0609700103. PMC 1748144. PMID 17148596.
  9. Schekman, Randy (1999). "Preface by Randy Schekman". Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 15. doi:10.1146/annurev.cb.15.010199.100001.
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