FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE聽|聽October 07, 2013
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2013 鈥� Marinda Li Wu, Ph.D., president of the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网 (ACS), the world鈥檚 largest scientific society, congratulates today鈥檚 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to James E. Rothman, Ph.D., of Yale University; Randy W. Schekman, Ph.D., of the University of California at Berkeley and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Thomas C. S眉dhof, M.D., of Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize 鈥渇or their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.鈥�
鈥淎s president of the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网, the world鈥檚 largest scientific society, I am delighted to congratulate the new laureates on behalf of our more than 163,000 members,鈥� said Wu. 鈥淩othman is among those members. Vesicles are small packages that cells use to move molecules from one place to another. These packages are important for understanding human health and diseases such as diabetes, and immune system and neurological disorders.鈥�
Rothman is a professor of chemistry and a 14-year member of ACS. His work has been published in the ACS journal Biochemistry, one of the society鈥檚 more than 40 peer-reviewed journals. S眉dhof鈥檚 work also appears in the ACS journal Biochemistry. In addition, his research has been mentioned in several articles in Chemical & Engineering News, ACS鈥� weekly newsmagazine. These articles are available from the contacts above.
Wu is 2013 president of the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网. The holder of seven U.S. patents, she has worked in Dow Chemical鈥檚 Central Research Laboratory and is founder of Science is Fun! Wu has considerable prior experience with ACS, including service as a councilor and as a member of the board and numerous ACS committees. She has been a member of the society since 1971 and was head of the California Section in 2001. Wu has a聽B.S. cum laude with Distinction in Chemistry from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
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