Quotes by Randy Schekman

About Randy Schekman:

Randy Wayne Schekman is a Nobel Prize-winning American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.
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The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.

Randy Schekman

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

Randy Schekman

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Randy Schekman

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Randy Schekman

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

Randy Schekman

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Randy Schekman

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

Randy Schekman

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

Randy Schekman

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Randy Schekman

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

Randy Schekman

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better rese...

Randy Schekman

Author Bio

  • NameRandy Schekman
  • DescriptionAmerican cell biologist
  • AliasesRandy Wayne Schekman
  • BornDecember 30, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBiochemist; Physician
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine; Guggenheim Fellowship; Albert Lasker Award For Basic Medical Research