The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
Awarded on: 2013-10-07
"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"
Affiliations:
- Yale University – New Haven, CT, USA
James E. Rothman
Born: 1950-11-03 in Haverhill, MA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biologist and Nobel laureate
Biography
James Edward Rothman is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus. Rothman also concurrently serves as adjunct professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University and a research professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.