Randy Schekman
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1948 –
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Who is Randy Schekman?
Randy Wayne Schekman is an 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.
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- Born
- Dec 30, 1948
Saint Paul - Also known as
- Randy W. Schekman
- Randy Wayne Schekman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, San Diego
- PhD, Stanford University
Biochemistry
(Specialized in DNA replication)
( - 1975) - University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- California
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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