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Randy Schekman

Cell biologist, 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine

u/schekman ↗AMA only

How we know it's theirs

The 2013 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 1 post and 46 comments from u/schekman, all from 2013, most often in r/IAmA.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I’m Randy Schekman, co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded this past Tuesday. Ask me anything.”

Are you in VLSB? How much competition will you have for the nearest parking spot? Congrats!!! Go Bears!!!!

u/schekman replied

No, I am n the Li Ka Shing building. Fortunately, there are usually enough spaces in the garage in which I park that the addition of my NL spot will have little to no effect on the freedom of others to park in this garage.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I’m Randy Schekman, co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded this past Tuesday. Ask me anything.”

Thanks, Dr. Schenkman. What applications do you foresee from your research?

u/schekman replied

My work has already yielded practical applications. When we found that yeast cells use a pathway of secretion similar to animal cells, the biotech industry engineered yeast to express and secrete useful quantities of human proteins such as insulin.