Randy Schekman
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Schekman in 2012.
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| Born | Randy Wayne Schekman December 30, 1948 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Institutions |
University of California, Berkeley UCLA Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
UCLA Stanford University |
| Thesis |
Resolution and Reconstruction of a multienzyme DNA replication reaction (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Kornberg |
| Doctoral students |
David Julius David Baker |
| Known for | Editor-in-chief of PNAS and eLife |
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Website mcb royalsociety |
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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.
Schekman was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Alfred Schekman, an electrical engineer and inventor. In the late 1950s his family moved to the new suburban community of Rossmoor, located in Orange County next to Long Beach. He graduated from Western High School in Anaheim, California, in 1966. He received a BA in Molecular Sciences from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1971. He spent his third year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, as an exchange student. He received a PhD in 1975 from Stanford University for research on DNA replication working with Arthur Kornberg. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1984 and Professor in 1994.
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