James E. Rothman

Prix

1. 1996

   Prix international Canada Gairdner

   Biologie

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

2. 2002

   Prix Lasker — Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Biologie

   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

   prix Nobel — Médecine

   Biologie

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