History of Nobel Prizes
He was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1949) in the Department of Biochemistry at Harvard University in the United States where he worked with A. Baird Hastings and Fritz Lipmann (Nobel Laureate).
His career as an academic began in 1938 when he was a student assistant. Later he would teach at the Faculties of Medicine, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine and Science. He also taught at the School of Medicine of the University of Puerto Rico.
In 1983 he was awarded this contribution for his contribution to the advancement of biochemistry in the fields of Bioenergetics; carbohydrate metabolism; metabolic regulation of enzymes, especially the study of liver cell metabolism; and for his concern for the establishment and development of undergraduate and graduate programs in Biochemistry in Chile.
Types of Nobel Prizes
Schekman first became interested in how proteins move inside cells during a postdoctoral fellowship he completed between 1974 and 1976 with S. Jonathan Singer, who was studying the outer membranes of mammalian cells. At that time, however, scientists could not easily study the steps of vesicle movement in mammalian cell culture.
So Schekman, who moved in 1976 to the University of California, Berkeley, as an independent researcher, decided to use yeast, a single-celled microorganism, to determine how protein-containing vesicles move in and out of the cell. Scientists can genetically and easily manipulate yeast, which, like higher organisms, have membrane-bound organelles. Organelles, such as mitochondria or the Golgi apparatus, are structures in cells that carry out specified functions.
What Schekman, using genetic methods, and Rothman, using biochemical approaches, working independently, did was to analyze in meticulous detail the molecular basis underlying vesicle formation, cargo selection and movement to the correct organelle or route out of the cell.
Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Where the Nobel Prizes are awarded
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