James Rothman#
© Alena Soboleva
| Membership Number: | 4163 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/synaptopathies/PI/rothman |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Research Professor, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London
- 2008 - present Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell Biology; Professor of Chemistry; Wallace Professor of the Biomedical Sciences; Director, Nanobiology Institute,Yale University
- 2004 - 2008 Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Director, Sulzberger Genome Center; Columbia University
- 1991 - 2004 Founder and Chair, Department of Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics; Paul A. Marks Chair; Vice-Chairman; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1988 - 1991 E.R. Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
- 1978 - 1988 Assistant, Associate (1981), Full (1984) Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University
- 1976 - 1978 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Protein sorting
- Neurotransmitter release
- Membrane fusion proteins
- Vesicle exocytosis
- Cell secretion machinery
- SNARE complex
- Cell traffic
- Presynaptic machinery
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof) "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"
- 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
- 2010 Massry Prize
- 2010 EB. Wilson Medal
- 2005 Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society
- 2002 Louisa Gross Horwitz prize of Columbia University
- 2002 Lasker Basic Science Award
- 2001 The Otto-Warburg Medal, Germany
- 2000 Heineken Foundation Prize of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 1999 The Jacobæus Prize, Denmark
- 1997 Lounsbery Award of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1997 The Harden Medal, UK Biochemical Society
- 1996 King Faisal International Prize for Science
- 1996 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1994 Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1994 The Rosenstiel Award in Biomedical Sciences (with R. Schekman), U.S.A.
- 1993 Membership, National Academy of Sciences USA
- 1989 The Alexander Von Humboldt Award, Germany
- 1986 The Eli Lilly Award for Fundamental Research in Biological Chemistry, U.S.A
- 1986 The Passano Young Scientist Award, U.S.A.
