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
Schekman in 2015.
Born	Randy Wayne Schekman (1948-12-30) December 30, 1948 (age 76) Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	UCLA (BA) Stanford University (PhD)
Known for	Editor-in-chief of PNAS[1] and eLife[2]
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1992) Gairdner Foundation International Award (1996) Lasker award (2002) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002) Massry Prize (2010) E. B. Wilson Medal (2010) ForMemRS (2013)[3] Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2013)[4]
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[5] David Baker
Website	mcb.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]