James Rothman
American biologist and Nobel laureate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[2] Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University[3] and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.[4]
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Born | James Edward Rothman (1950-11-03) November 3, 1950 (age 73) |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | United States |
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Fields | Cell biology |
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Thesis | Transbilayer asymmetry and its maintenance in biological membranes (1976) |
Academic advisors | Harvey Lodish |
Website | medicine |
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).[5][6] He received many other honors including the King Faisal International Prize in 1996,[7] the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002.[8][9]