Nobel Prize For Medicine: James Rothman, Randy Schekman And Thomas Sudhof Jointly Win Prize

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James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof jointly won the 2013 Nobel Prize For Physiology or Medicine on Monday.

Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for their discoveries in how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.

The trio earned the prize for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic and for solving “the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system,” the Nobel Prize Twitter feed reported.

Rothman is a professor and chairman in the department of cell biology at Yale University. Schekman is a professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley. Sudhof is a professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford University.

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