Nobel for Medicine won by 3 scientists
0 Comment(s)
Print
E-mail Xinhua, October 7, 2013
 |
|
Pictures of the 2013 winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Suedhof (L-R) are seen on a screen during a press conference at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, capital of Sweden. (Xinhua/Shi Tiancheng) |
"These discoveries have had a major impact on our understanding of how cargo is delivered with timing and precision within and outside the cell," the statement said, adding that defective vesicle transport occurs in a variety of diseases including a number of neurological and immunological disorders, as well as in diabetes. Without this wonderfully precise organization, the cell would lapse into chaos.
Rothman was born in the United States in 1950 and he received his PhD from Harvard Medical School in 1976 and moved in 1978 to Stanford University in California, where he started his research on the vesicles of the cell. Currently Rothman is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University.
Born in the United States in 1948, Schekman studied at the University of California in Los Angeles and at Stanford University, where he obtained his PhD, in the same department that Rothman joined a few years, under the supervision of Arthur Kornberg who won the Nobel Prize in 1959. Schekman is at present Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
Sudhof was born in Germany in 1955 and moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas of the United States as a postdoctoral fellow with Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Sudhof was appointed Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University in 2008.
The annual Nobel Prizes are usually announced in October to commemorate the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.
A total of 201 persons, including 10 women, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine between 1901 and 2012. The prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of 8 million Swedish kronor (about 1.2 million U.S. dollars) for this year.
Go to Forum >>0 Comment(s)