Karolinska Institute's Chairman of the Nobel committee for physiology or medicine Juleen Zierath talks, as images of the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine — James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the US, and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof — are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday (7th Oct 2013).

1. The Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
2013
Source :
"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013".
Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 7 Oct 2013.
<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/
2013/>
Dr. D.S.Murty,
Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

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07-10-2013
• The Nobel Assembly at “Karolinska Institutet”
has today decided to award the 2013 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to
James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman
and Thomas C. Südhof
• for their discoveries of machinery regulating
vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our
cells

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About the scientists
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of machinery
regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system
in our cells"

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James E. Rothman
• Born: 3 November
1950, Haverhill, MA,
USA
• Affiliation at the time
of the award: Yale
University, New
Haven, CT, USA
Phto: © Yale University

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James E. Rothman
• James E. Rothman was born 1950 in Haverhill,
Massachusetts, USA.
• He received his PhD from Harvard Medical School in 1976,
was a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and moved in 1978 to Stanford University in
California, where he started his research on the vesicles of
the cell.
• Rothman has also worked at Princeton University,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute and Columbia
University.
• In 2008, he joined the faculty of Yale University in New
Haven, Connecticut, USA, where he is currently Professor
and Chairman in the Department of Cell Biology.

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Randy W. Schekman
• Randy W. Schekman
• Born: 30 December
1948, St. Paul, MN,
USA
• Affiliation at the
time of the award:
University of
California, Berkeley,
CA, USA
Photo: H. Goren. © HMI

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Randy W. Schekman
• Randy W. Schekman was born 1948 in St Paul,
Minnesota, USA, studied at the University of California
in Los Angeles and at Stanford University, where he
obtained his PhD in 1974 under the supervision of
Arthur Kornberg (Nobel Prize 1959) and in the same
department that Rothman joined a few years later.
• In 1976, Schekman joined the faculty of the University
of California at Berkeley, where he is currently
Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell
biology. Schekman is also an investigator of Howard
Hughes Medical Institute.

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Thomas C. Südhof
• Born: 22 December
1955, Goettingen,
Germany
• Affiliation at the time
of the award: Stanford
University, Stanford,
CA, USA
Phoo: © S. Fisch

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Thomas C. Südhof
• Thomas C. Südhof was born in 1955 in Göttingen,
Germany. He studied at the Georg-August-Universität in
Göttingen, where he received an MD in 1982 and a
Doctorate in neurochemistry the same year.
• In 1983, he moved to the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, USA, as a postdoctoral
fellow with Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein (who
shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).
• Südhof became an investigator of Howard Hughes Medical
Institute in 1991 and was appointed Professor of Molecular
and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University in 2008.

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About their discovery

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First Reaction…!
“My first reaction was, “Oh, my God!” said
Dr. Schekman in a statement released by
Berkeley. “That was also my second
reaction.”