Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2019).
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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 rese…
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science · American biologist and Nobel laureate · biochemist · physician · university teacher · also James Rothman, James E. Rothman, James Edward Rothman, Rothman
Born 3 November 1950 · Q444270
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2019).
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Won Van Deenen Medal (2016).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (2014).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2013).
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Awarded Massry Prize (2010).
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Won E. B. Wilson Medal (2010).
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Awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2010).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2009).
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Retaining a part-time appointment at Columbia
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Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007).
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Rothman was appointed as the Chief Science Advisor to GE Healthcare
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Left Sloan-Kettering to become a professor of physiology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and the head of Columbia's Center for Chemical Biology
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2002).
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Won Otto Warburg Medal (2001).
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Awarded Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics (2000).
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Awarded Richard Lounsbery Award (1997).
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Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (1996).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1996).
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The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research both in 2002
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Regensburg (1995).
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Rothman joined the Amersham plc scientific advisory board
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Awarded Rosenstiel Award (1993).
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Awarded Heinrich Wieland Prize (1990).
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Studied at Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Philosophy (1976).
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Studied at Branford College, Bachelor of Arts (1971).
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Born 1950-11-03.
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