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Molecular biologist Randy Schekman, a member of the Geisel School of Medicine Board of Overseers, won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on understanding how proteins are transported in human cells.
Schekman, who shared the prize with Yale University biomedical sciences professor James Rothman and Stanford University School of Medicine professor Thomas Sudhof, discovered what the Nobel Assembly summarized as "the exquisitely precise control system for the transport and delivery of cellular cargo."
By explaining these processes, the laureates revealed how various hormones and enzymes are organized and shuttled throughout the body, and identified three classes of genes that control different parts of a cell's transport system.