Randy Schekman, PhD
Scientific Director at Aligning Science Across Parkinson's
Professor and PI at University of California at Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, CA
United States
Randy Schekman is a professor of molecular and cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Schekman’s laboratory investigates the mechanism of membrane protein traffic in the secretory pathway of cells. Recent interests include the mechanism of trafficking alpha-synuclein. Among his awards are the Gairdner International Award, the Albert Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with James Rothman and Thomas Südhof. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2011, he founded and served (until 2019) as the editor-in-chief of the open access journal, eLife. Beginning in 2018, Dr. Schekman assumed a leadership role in an effort supported by the Sergey Brin Family Foundation to identify and support basic research on the mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease initiation and progression.