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James Rothman
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American biologist and Nobel laureate
James Rothman is an American biologist who won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries about how cells transport and deliver materials internally, a fundamental process that keeps cells functioning properly. His work matters because understanding these cellular delivery systems has important applications for treating diseases and developing new medicines.
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Top works
- Reconstitution of Intracellular Transport
- Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles
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Key facts
- Born
- James Edward Rothman , ( 1950-11-03 ) November 3, 1950 (age 75) , Haverhill, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Yale University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
- Awards
- Heinrich Wieland Prize (1990) Rosenstiel Award (1993) 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)
- Fields
- Cell biology
- Institutions
- Yale University Columbia University University College London Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Princeton University Stanford University
- Thesis
- Transbilayer asymmetry and its maintenance in biological membranes (1976)
- Academic advisors
- Harvey Lodish
- Website
- medicine .yale .edu /profile /james-rothman /
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2013
“for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Haverhill
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Eugene Kennedy
- Doctoral student
- Sandra Schmid
- Field of work
- biochemistry
- Official website
- medicine.yale.edu/profile/james-rothman
- Image
- James Edward Rothman.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.
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). He received many other honors including the King Faisal International Prize in 1996, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002.
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