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Randy Schekman Biography

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley and former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.

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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

Cells, Desire, Driven

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

100, Algae, Focused, Hours, Microbiology, School

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

Figures, Hard Work, Inspiration, Thought, Work, Works

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Achieves, Humanity, Scientist, Things, World

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Curiosity, Dedication, Endless, Idea, Ideas

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

Cells, Chemistry, Enzymes, Production, Proteins

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Feeling, Happen, Night, Optimistic, Years

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

Average, Encouraged, Impact, Quality

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Experience, Nature, Paper, Science, Unpleasant Experiences

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Card, Cards, Catalogue, Five, Kept, Three