Randy Schekman

Randy Schekman
Schekman in 2015
Born	Randy Wayne Schekman (1948-12-30) December 30, 1948 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Stanford University (PhD)
Known for	Editor-in-chief of PNAS and eLife
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1992) Rosenstiel Award (1993) Gairdner Foundation International Award (1996) Lasker award (2002) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002) Massry Prize (2010) E. B. Wilson Medal (2010) ForMemRS (2013) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2013)
Scientific career
Workplaces	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 David Baker
Website	mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/schekman royalsociety.org/people/randy-schekman

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 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.