Randy W. Schekman PhD

Schekman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. After completing a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, Schekman attended Stanford University, where he performed his graduate research in the laboratory of American biochemist and physician Arthur Kornberg. After studying at the University of California in Los Angeles and spending time at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego (1974-76) and from 1976 he has remained a faculty member at the University of California in Berkeley Berkeley, Schekman began investigating networks of intracellular membranes associated with the vesicle transport of proteins in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Schekman was the recipient of the 1996 Gairdner Foundation International Award (with Rothman) and the 2002 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (with Rothman). He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 and in 2000 became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.