Randy Schekman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Randy Schekman

Nobel prize winning American cell biologist

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1948

Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Profession: physician, university teacher, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C.
Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.