Randy Schekman
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Institution |
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology |
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Education
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1966-70 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
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1970-74 |
Stanford University School of Medicine, PhD |
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1974-76 |
Biology, UC San Diego (PD Advisor: S.J. Singer) |
Positions
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1976-89 |
Asst., Assoc. and Professor of Biochemistry |
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1989- |
Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, |
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1990-94 |
Head, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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1997-2000 |
Co-chairman, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology |
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1990- |
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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2002-2012 |
Chair, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Biology, UCB |
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2005 |
Founding Director, UC Berkeley Stem Cell Center |
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2006-2010 |
Program Director, CIRM Training Grant |
Academic Honors
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1970 |
Woodrow Wilson Fellow |
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1970 |
UCLA Zoology Department Undergraduate Research Award |
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1974-76 |
Cystic Fibrosis Postdoctoral Fellow |
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1982-83 |
Guggenheim Fellow |
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1987 |
Eli Lilly Research Award in Microbiology and Immunology |
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1994 |
Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award in Basic Biomedical Science |
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1995 |
Harvey Lecture |
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1996 |
The Gairdner International Award |
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1999 |
Berkeley Faculty Research Lecturer |
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1999 |
Amgen Award Lecture, Protein Society |
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2002 |
Albert Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research |
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2002 |
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University |
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2005 |
Keith Porter Lecture, American Society for Cell Biology |
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2007 |
Van Deenan Medalist, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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2008 |
Dickson Prize in Medicine, University of Pittsburgh |
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2008 |
Inaugural Senior Fellow, Miller Institute UC Berkeley |
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2010 |
Massry Prize, Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation |
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2010 |
E. B. Wilson Award, American Society for Cell Biology |
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2011 |
Inaugural Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award, Stanford University Medical School |
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2013 |
Otto Warburg Prize of the German Biochemical Society |
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2013 |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Elections, Honorific Societies and Docteur Honoris Causa
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1992 |
Election to National Academy of Sciences |
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1993 |
Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society |
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1997 |
Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
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1999 |
President, American Society for Cell Biology |
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2000 |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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2001 |
Foreign Associate, EMBO |
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2005 |
Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Regensburg, Germany |
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2008 |
Elected Member, The American Philosophical Society |
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2010 |
Elected Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy |
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2013 |
Foreign Associate, Royal Society of London |
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2014 |
Docteur Honoris Causa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
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2014 |
Docteur Honoris Causa, Universidad de Chile |
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2014 |
Honorary Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
Professional Activities
Member, American Society for Microbiology
Member, American Academy for Microbiology
Member, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Member, American Society for Cell Biology
Member, Pew Scholars Program Advisory Committee, 1996-2002
Natl. Inst. of Health Cell Biology Study Section, 1983-1988
Editorial Board: J. Cell Biol., 1985-1992; Biochemistry, 1986-1993;
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002-05;
J. Membrane Biology, 1986-; Cell, 2001-2011
Chair, Natl. Academy of Sciences Biochemistry Section, 2002-2005
Chair, Natl. Academy of Sciences Biology Class, 2005-2008
Council American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009-2012
Editor in Chief, Ann. Rev. Cell & Developmental Biology, 1999-
Editor-in-Chief, Proceedings Natl. Academy of Sciences, 2006-2011;
Scientific Director, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, 2002-2012
Council National Academy of Sciences, 2013-
Editor-in-Chief, eLife, 2011-
Present Research
Mechanism and control of intracellular protein transport