James Rothman

James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus.^[4]

James Rothman
Born	James Edward Rothman (1950-11-03) November 3, 1950 (age 75) Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Yale University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Awards	Heinrich Wieland Prize (1990) Richard Lounsbery Award (1997) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002) Albert Lasker award (2002) E. B. Wilson Medal (2010) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Cell biology
Institutions	Yale University Columbia University University College London Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Princeton University Stanford University[1]
Thesis	Transbilayer asymmetry and its maintenance in biological membranes (1976)
Academic advisors	Harvey Lodish
Notable students	Gero Miesenböck (postdoc)[2][3]
Website	www.chem.yale.edu/faculty/rothman.html

Rothman worked at Columbia University^[5] and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.^[6]

Rothman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof).^[7]

He was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 2015.^[8]