Randy Schekman

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work_institutions = University of California, Berkeley
alma_mater = Stanford University, University of California, San Diego
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Randy Schekman is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and Editor-in-Chief of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences". He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.

In 2002, Schekman received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University along with James Rothman for their discovery of cellular membrane trafficking, a process that cells use to organize their activities and communicate with their environment.

Career

* 1991 - present - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley

External links

* [http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/CDB/schekmanr.html Randy Schekman's faculty page at UC Berkeley]
* [http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/schekman.html Randy Schekman's research into the Intracellular Transport of Proteins]