James E. Rothman

Awards

1. 1996

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

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

2. 2002

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   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

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

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