James E. Rothman

Premios

1. 1996

   Premio Internacional Canadá Gairdner

   Biología

   For the identification of proteins involved in intracellular traffic and vesicle fusion.

2. 2002

   Premio Lasker — Premio Albert Lasker de Investigación Médica Básica

   Biología

   For discoveries revealing the universal molecular machinery that orchestrates the budding and fusion of membrane vesicles — a process essential to organelle formation, nutrient uptake, and secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters.

3. 2013

   Premio Nobel — Medicina

   Biología

   for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells