Haverhill native James Rothman has won the Nobel Prize in medicine--- Three U.S. scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying how a cell’s tiny transporters can navigate and drop off hormones and other molecules without getting lost, providing insight into diseases such as diabetes. James Rothman, 62, professor of biomedical sciences at Yale University; Randy Schekman, 64, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley; and Thomas C. Suedhof, 57, a physiology professor at Stanford University, will share the 8 million-krona ($1.25 million) prize, the Nobel Assembly said today in Stockholm. Their work helped unravel processes such as how pancreatic cells release insulin, how embryos liberate growth factors to stimulate organ development and how viruses infect. Changes in those pathways explain diseases that include the most common form of diabetes as well as the lethal impact of bacterial illnesses such as tetanus.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:40:54 +0000
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