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Cell biology chair receives Nobel Prize
James E. Rothman, Ph.D., the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, chair of the Department of Cell Biology, professor of chemistry, and director of the Nanobiology Institute on Yale’s West Campus, is one of three winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Rothman is one of the world’s foremost experts on membrane trafficking, the means by which proteins and other materials are transported within and between cells. The prize highlights his contributions to the understanding of exocytosis, a form of trafficking in which spherical sacs called vesicles fuse with cell membranes to deliver their contents outside the cell.