James Rothman
James Rothman · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery regulating vesicle traffic in cells.
1950, Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States
United States
James Rothman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery regulating vesicle traffic in cells.
Born to a Jewish family in Massachusetts, Rothman worked out the molecular machinery that lets cells transport materials in tiny membrane bubbles called vesicles and deliver them precisely — the SNARE proteins that make vesicles fuse with the right target membrane at the right time. This traffic control is essential to nerve signaling, hormone release and immune function, and its disruption causes disease. He shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Randy Schekman and Thomas Südhof, and works at Yale University.
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Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery regulating vesicle traffic in cells.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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